Strategies To Reduce Re-admission of Cardiac Patents In Hospital

Abstract

The increasing number of cardiac patient every year, simultaneously the provision of quality care to them, causing many challenges to be faced by the health care system. Readmission after an initial discharge from a hospital is another big issue. Most of the time these readmissions are due to minor reasons and can be avoidable, but the need is to evaluate properly the risk factors this problem can be solved. By reviewing different studies, it is prove that by adequate monitoring, proper and authentic education to patients and attendants and the training of health professionals could be a better solution to reduce the read-mission in hospitals.

Strategies To Reduce Re-admission of Cardiac Patents In Hospital

Introduction

In order to understand the whole proposal, first of all start by understanding the term Re-admission, it means after discharging from the hospital after recovering from any health issue, again get admitted due to that previous ailment. Some re-admission are uncontrollable, but Some readmissions are controllable with the help of slight monitoring and taking caring of risk factors. According to the Medicare most of the patients who discharged from the hospital come back most probably within thirty days. Few patients need readmission as corrective strategy according to their health condition, but most of the hospital readmissions can be preventable and as “indicators of poor care or missed opportunities to better coordinate care.” (Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, 2007).

Hospital readmissions that are the result of carelessness and can be controllable has disadvantages to all parties, for the hospital, staff and the patient itself. The major disadvantage for a hospital is the occupancy of hospital bed by the patients, utilization of equipments, medical professionals and of course the reputation of the hospital. From the patient end, he or she has to pay extra and a large amount of cost in terms of stay at the hospital, along with that the expenses of laboratory tests and medicines. Some people thought that the Medicare's proposed hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) would motivate the physicians and other health professionals to discharge the patient as soon as possible without recovering from the ailment wholly. That results in compromising the quality of health care of inpatients, that is the major drawback, and it is not justifying the angelic look of a doctor. Despite of it the patients were discharged earlier with rising risk of admitting again in hospital, along with the burden on their pockets. Initial analysis justifies that the higher number of readmissions are for availing the services of medical, rather than any operation or process of surgery, as a result of it the hospital was not gaining any benefit (Jencks et. al 2008).

By admitting in the hospital again and again also de-motivate the patients. They feel depression, fear and much more, from the environment of the hospital and the process of testing also make them painful.

To reduce the preventable hospital readmissions, grow a novel opportunity for policy making entities, health care professionals and patients to minimize ...