What accounts for hospital readmission?

Aims: This study was launched to address the knowledge gap regarding factors leading to readmission to hospital.

Background: Repeated hospital admission is an issue of concern for health care service providers. Research findings reveal that multiple factors can contribute to the phenomenon, but no study has examined the direct and indirect effects of these variables on hospital readmission.

Identifying patient readmission subtypes from unplanned readmissions to hospitals in Hong Kong: a cluster analysis.

It has been conjectured with regard to patient readmission patterns that there might be significant differences in patient characteristics, need factors, enabling resources, and health behavior. The aim of this study was to identify the profiles of readmitted patients in Hong Kong (n = 120) based on their predisposing characteristics, needs, health behavior, and enabling resources. All the readmitted patients were recruited to the study in three hospitals from 2003 to 2005.

Community nursing services for postdischarge chronically ill patients.

Objective: To examine community nursing services for patients with cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and other general medical conditions, making the transition from hospital to home.

Design: The original study design was a randomised controlled trial. This study is a secondary analysis of the hospital records documented by community nurses for the study-group patients.

Can home visits help reduce hospital readmissions? Randomized controlled trial.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to determine whether home visits can reduce hospital readmissions. Background. The phenomenon of hospital readmission raises concerns about the quality of care and appropriate use of resources.

A study on investigating unplanned readmission patterns.

Aim: To explain frequent hospital readmissions, this study aimed to determine whether definable subtypes exist within a cohort of subjects with chronic illness with regard to factors associated with a patient's readmission patterns and to compare whether these factors vary between subjects in groups with different profiles.

Research Method: A descriptive correlational survey was conducted and data were collected by using a structured questionnaire. Seventy-four readmitted subjects were recruited in three general hospitals in Hong Kong.

Decolonization and the movement for institutionalization of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong: a political process perspective.

This paper focuses on the question of why the social and political acceptance of Chinese medicine has grown in the former British colony of Hong Kong since the late 1980s. To supplement the conventional explanations for the institutionalization of alternative medicines, we propose a political process perspective that highlights the effects of political changes amidst the decolonization process in Hong Kong. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the weakening of the political position of the established elite, the opening up of political space for previously excluded groups, and the competition for support among the new political elite, all stimulated the indigenous Chinese medicine organizations to mobilize for the institutionalization of Chinese medicine.