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Child's home address helps predict risk of readmission to hospital - 0 views

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  • Kahn, M
  • senior investigator of the Cincinnati Children's study
  • The researchers geocoded home addresses (grouping households by geographic area) and constructed the social risk index
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  • included extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rates.
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated a
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • high risk
  • category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room.
  • . Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • standardize care for child asthma sufferers do little to account for how socioeconomic disparities affect asthma.
  • help to target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.
  • "Early identification of children at increased risk could allow additional assessments and services to be put in place prior to discharge to improve patient outcomes. It also could
  • other asthma outcomes and other conditions, such as diabetes mellitus
    • Katie Stevenson
      Katie Stevenson on 29 Oct 12
       
      Doctor Beck and MD Kahn from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Knowing class, address, geography, and parents education can all help tell if a child will have asthma and be readmitted to the hospital
  • Katie Stevenson on 29 Oct 12
     
    Knowing a child's address my help prevent hospitalization
Katie Stevenson

Child's Home Address Helps Predict Risk Of Readmission To Hospital - MediLexicon - 0 views

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  • Simply knowing a child's home address and some socioeconomic data can serve as a vital sig
  • predict which children admitted for asthma treatment are at greater risk for re-hospitalization or additional emergency room visits
  • research in the American Journal of Public Health.
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  • ," based on census measures of poverty, home values and number of adults with high school degrees, also can help hospitals identify families likely to report financial or psychological hardship
  • linked to adverse asthma outcomes
  • Andrew Beck, MD
  • incinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • geocoded home addresses (grouping households by geographic area)
  • social risk index from assigned census tract regions.
  • extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rates
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated and placed in one of three categories, or risk strata: low, medium or high risk.
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • high risk category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room.
  • high-risk children had caregivers who were five times more likely to report two or more financial hardships
  • three times more likely to report psychological distress
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room.
  • The links between socioeconomic disparities and childhood asthma are well-established. Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • do little to account for how socioeconomic disparities affect asthma.
  • help to target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.
  • , they want to assess whether the introduction of geographic data into clinical care leads to more in-depth and reliable triage of patients.
  • data helps link hospital- or community-based care to those patients most likely to benefit from it.
  • Katie Stevenson on 29 Oct 12
     
    Child's home helps predict risk of hospitalization
Katie Stevenson

Child's Home Address Helps Predict Risk Of Readmission to Hospital - 1 views

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  • research in the American Journal of Public Health.
  • geographic social risk index
  • based on census measures of poverty, home values and number of adults with high school degrees,
  • ...23 more annotations...
  • families likely to report financial or psychological hardship – both of which are linked to adverse asthma outcomes, says Andrew Beck, MD
  • t Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study.
  • could include enhanced care coordination, community health workers or help with better housing
  • Robert Kahn, MD,
  • help identify children admitted to the hospital with asthma who may need more aggressive, targeted assessments and/or interventions may prevent asthma attacks and reduce disparities,
  • increasing our ability to know a child’s likelihood of returning to the hospital
  • enhanced clinical care pathway right at the start of an admission.
  • readmissions is increasingly critical in the era of healthcare reform.”
  • (grouping households by geographic area
  • constructed the social risk index
  • assigned census tract regions
  • extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rate
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated and placed in one of three categories, or risk strata: low, medium or high risk.
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • low geographic risk, children in the high risk category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room
  • high-risk children had caregivers who were five times more likely to report two or more financial hardships in their households and three times more likely to report psychological distress.
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room
  • . Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • identification of children at increased risk could allow additional assessments and services to be put in place prior to discharge to improve patient outcomes
  • target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.”
  • e to use the geographic social risk index to study other asthma outcomes and other conditions, such as diabetes mellitus.
  • introduction of geographic data into clinical care leads to more in-depth and reliable triage of patients.
  • helps link hospital- or community-based care to those patients most likely to benefit from it.
  • Katie Stevenson on 31 Oct 12
     
    Cincinnati Hospital finds knowing a child's address may tell if they are going to revisit or be readmitted into the hospital
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