Abstract Purpose of Review Acute care re-utilization, ie, hospital readmission and post-
discharge Emergency Department (ED) use, is a significant driver of healthcare costs and a …

Objective: To describe pharmacy-supported transition-of-care (TOC) interventions and
determine their effect on 30-day all-cause readmissions. Data Sources: MEDLINE/PubMed …

Objective Health care providers increasingly rely upon predictive algorithms when making
important treatment decisions, however, evidence indicates that these tools can lead to …

Background and objective In healthcare systems, the cost of unplanned readmission
accounts for a large proportion of total hospital payment. Hospital-specific readmission rate …

Introduction Growing demand for mental health services, coupled with funding and resource
limitations, creates an opportunity for novel technological solutions including artificial …

Background Hospital length-of-Stay has been traditionally used as a surrogate to evaluate
healthcare efficiency, as well as hospital resource utilization. P rolonged L ength-o fs tay …

Importance Hospital readmissions are associated with patient harm and expense. Ways to
prevent hospital readmissions have focused on identifying patients at greatest risk using …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of hospital
readmissions in the United States. The quality of care delivered to patients with COPD is …

With the advancement in Internet implementations, computational intelligence and network
technologies, smart product-service system (SPSS) has become an important research area …

Purpose The aim of this study was to test whether patient medication adherence, a
modifiable risk factor obtainable at hospital admission, predicts readmission within 30 days …