Publications by authors named "Colleen K Snydeman"
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- The study analyzed the use of physical restraints among hospitalized adults in a healthcare network, identifying that 6.3% of hospitalizations involved restraint use, particularly higher in intensive care units (39% of ICU cases).
- Factors like age, male gender, and language barriers were linked to higher likelihoods of restraint use.
- The ICD-10 code for physical restraint was found to have very low sensitivity (1.5%) but extremely high specificity (99.99%) when compared to electronic health record documentation, indicating a major gap in accurately capturing restraint use.
Under pressure to avoid readmissions, hospitals are increasingly employing hospital-initiated postdischarge interventions (HiPDI), such as home visits and follow-up phone calls, to help patients after discharge. This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of HiPDI on reducing hospital readmissions using a systematic review of clinical trials published between 1990 and 2014. We analyzed twenty articles on HiPDI (from 503 reviewed abstracts) containing 7,952 index hospitalizations followed for a median 3 months (range 1-24) after discharge for readmission.
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