Abstract 182: Causes and Prevention of Hospital Readmissions Secondary to Heart Failure in Southern Appalachia [Session Title: Poster Session AM]

Conclusion: Strategies to mitigate readmission rates secondary to HF include limiting LOS to less than 5 days, providing smoking cessation education, and prescribing an ACE-I at the time of discharge. Methods to minimize development of DM and CRF through controlling contributing risk factors and ensuring appropriate management of psychiatric disorders are additional platforms for decreasing readmission rates for HF. Counter to previous assumptions, the discharge time of the day, day of the week, and month of the year did not affect the rate of readmissions, nor did the type of payor, the discharge location, or whether patients received palliative medicine consults.

Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - April 5, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Treece, J., Brooks, B., Moore, C., Shipley, L. C., Zhang, M., Onweni, C., Jbara, M., Bhattad, V. B., Rahman, Z. U., Sivagnanam, K., Paul, T. K., Ramu, V. Tags: Session Title: Poster Session AM Source Type: research