Background Guidelines recommend routine frailty screening for all hospitalised older adults
to inform care decisions, based mainly on studies in elective or speciality-specific settings …

Objectives To summarize the evidence on the prevalence and preventability of drug‐related
hospital readmissions. Design A systematic review was performed of studies that examined …

Objective: We extend the literature on comorbidity measurement by develo** 2 indices,
based on the Elixhauser Comorbidity measures, designed to predict 2 frequently reported …

Importance Readmission penalties have catalyzed efforts to improve care transitions, but
few programs have incorporated viewpoints of patients and health care professionals to …

Importance Because effective interventions to reduce hospital readmissions are often
expensive to implement, a score to predict potentially avoidable readmissions may help …

Critical illness is a hypercatabolic state. It has been hypothesized that timely and adequate
nutrition support may optimize the host response and thereby minimize nutritionally related …

Background & aims Hospitalized patients show a high rate of malnutrition, which is
associated with poor patient outcomes and high healthcare costs. However, relatively few …

The current era of health care delivery, with its focus on providing high-quality, affordable
care, presents many challenges to hospital-based health professionals. The prevention and …

Objectives Hospital readmission risk prediction facilitates the identification of patients
potentially at high risk so that resources can be used more efficiently in terms of cost-benefit …

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Readmissions Reduction
Program has focused attention on ways to reduce thirty-day readmissions and on factors …