Disease management program cuts readmission days
Case Management Weekly, February 12, 2008
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An advanced practice nursing program with a disease management component has been shown to reduce the number of readmission hospital days for chronically, critically ill patients, according to a study by Case Western Reserve University in the American Journal of Critical Care.
The idea behind the program, which was funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (one of the 27 institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health), is to allow an individual advanced practice nurse to communicate with caregivers, physicians, and facilities; follow a chronically critically ill patient through the healthcare system; and serve as a patient advocate.
"The number one cost of caring for these patients once they are discharged from their initial stay was readmission to the hospital," says Sara L. Douglas, RN, PhD, who authored the study with Barbara J. Daly, RN, PhD, FAAN, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Source: To read more about this story, take a look at the February 2008 issue of Case Management Monthly
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