How to Use readmission in a Sentence

readmission

noun
  • That has brought the readmission rate down from 18% to 3%, according to Hess.
    Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2024
  • Of these patients, 1 in 5 of the Covid-19 survivors died upon readmission.
    Dr. Ali Tinazli, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Overall, the top-15 were said to have had lower death and readmission rates than peers and to have sent patients home sooner with fewer infections.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2022
  • And yet states seeking readmission to the Union had to grant freedmen access to political power.
    New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • But Stein and his teams persisted and, in time, opponents could not argue with the results: Studies showed that within five years, readmission rates fell from 60% to 6%.
    jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • This infection was preventable and caused a week-long hospital readmission and repeat hip surgery.
    Ruth Ann Dorrill, STAT, 18 June 2022
  • In particular, the VBP recognizes the quality of care based, in part, on readmission rates from nursing homes to hospitals.
    Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Hospitals can choose among goals provided by the state such as lowering readmission rates or screening patients for social needs such as housing.
    Phil Galewitz, Fortune, 21 May 2021
  • First, establish a reliable approach to track discharges and readmissions in real time in order to assess the trends and impacts of any interventions.
    Darshak Sanghavi, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • McCullough-Hyde Hospital had the highest penalty for readmission in the region, a 1.15% reduction.
    Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2022
  • While hospital readmission rates have held steady or declined in some parts of the county, the rate for some rural communities has risen from 9 percent to nearly 17 percent in recent years, officials said.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Each state that had defected to the Confederacy had to create a new constitution for readmission.
    Carol Motsinger, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Salovey added that the university had dropped the requirement of needing to take two courses at another school before seeking readmission.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Hospital readmissions are a stubborn and complex problem; roughly 18% of all Medicare patients end up back in the hospital within a month of leaving, and many of these readmissions are preventable.
    Darshak Sanghavi, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The price of the South’s permanent and unconditional readmission into the Union as a bloc of racially apartheid states was the abandonment of these once-valuable Black citizens to ruthless terrorization.
    Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The study found that among congenital heart patients with heart failure, those younger than 45 had a higher risk of death, significant complications, and readmission than those older than 45.
    Elaine Chen Reprints, STAT, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The study also found that ER patients treated by a nurse practitioner were 20% more likely to be readmitted to the hospital for a preventable reason within 30 days, although the overall risk of readmission remained very small.
    Brett Kelman, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Patients who received care from a female physician were at a 4% lower risk of dying within 30 days, and a 5% lower risk of hospital readmission in the same period, compared with patients who received their care from male physicians.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 15 May 2024
  • But the Heart Safe Motherhood program has reduced readmissions for blood pressure complications among Penn’s postpartum patients from 5% to 1%.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
  • Not a quick fix The Camden Coalition originally believed that just a few months of extra medical and social support would be enough to reduce the cycle of expensive hospital readmissions.
    Leslie Walker, NPR, 3 May 2024
  • According to this study, female physicians had (slightly) lower mortality rates and readmission rates compared with male doctors in the same hospital.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2016
  • But the readmission rate after discharge among those Pennsylvania hospitals is 5% higher than the national average, the risk index says.
    Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • For hospitals, the growth of telehealth has helped to triage patients, monitor them after discharge and lower readmission rates, administrators say.
    Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Spain said approximately 4,000 migrants had already been sent back to Morocco, under a readmission deal.
    NBC News, 19 May 2021
  • Rushton said one of the major goals of the program is to monitor patients for dangerous rebound blood thinning that can require readmission to the hospital and additional doses of antivenom.
    al, 5 June 2022
  • Heart failure patients who saw general providers, Morse explained, had a higher hospital readmission rate than those treated by specialists.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 6 July 2020
  • Poorer and rural patients were also less likely to have prompt post-discharge visits to check on issues such as medication, a common contributor to readmission.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Overall, the researchers found that illness caused by Covid was more severe, with higher rates of death, hospital readmission and adverse effects on multiple organ systems, than what was associated with the flu.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • There will still be testing, close monitoring and follow-up appointments – all, hopefully, to prevent readmission.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 9 May 2023
  • The hospitals also have dismal readmission rates and government rankings.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024

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