Thirty-day all-cause hospital readmission rates in 2014 were highest for patients with congestive heart failure (23.2 per 100 admissions), schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (22.9), and respiratory failure (21.6). (Source: AHRQ, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #230: A Comparison of All-Cause 7-Day and 30-Day Readmissions, 2014.)
Welcome to the 1st Edition of the PAHQ Quarterly Newsletter. As some of you may know, at the end of 2015 NAHQ broke all affiliations with State organizations because of liability and insurance concerns. Effectively, PAHQ became immediately independent at the start of 2016, and the Board has been meeting regularly to revitalize and reorganize [...]
Did you know Almost $300 billion a year is spent in caring for health conditions that are attributable to nonadherence 11 percent of all hospitalizations are attributed to patients failing to take their meds on time, in the right dosage or at all Population-level studies have shown that medication adherence is only about 50 to [...]
Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maine and North Dakota ranked highest among 50 states and the District of Columbia in updated assessments of health care quality, according to AHRQ’s online State Snapshots. The interactive resource evaluates states based on more than 250 measures of health care quality and access. Drawn from the most recently available data in AHRQ’s 2016 [...]
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