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The surveys are free to anyone who wants to use them. They focus on aspects of healthcare quality that patients find important and are well-equipped to assess, such as the communication skills of providers and ease of access to healthcare services. [2] To customize a standardized CAHPS survey, users can add questions on a variety of topics.
CMS defines a hospital readmission as "an admission to an acute care hospital within 30 days of discharge from the same or another acute care hospital. [1]" It uses an "all-cause" definition, meaning that the cause of the readmission does not need to be related to the cause of the initial hospitalization.
It was previously maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) but is currently maintained by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA). Five-level acuity scales continue to remain pertinent due to their effectiveness of identifying patients in need of emergent treatment and categorizing patients in limited resource situations.
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Several studies have indicated that increased 30-day, 90-day, and 1-year post-discharge mortality of heart failure patients can be attributed to "gaming the system" through inappropriate triage systems in emergency departments, use of observation stays when admissions are warranted, and delay of readmission beyond the 30th day post-discharge ...