NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors at one Boston hospital cut their readmission rate after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) from 9.6% to 5.3% over a four-year period, they say.
The initiative at the Massachusetts General Hospital, phased in between 2011 and 2015, included interventions during hospitalization (a readmission-risk assessment and a discharge checklist), after discharge (an urgent access clinic), and during re-presentation to the emergency department (a special triage protocol), as well as patient-education videos.
This program “could potentially provide evidence-based tactics that can be implemented in other healthcare centers, to both reduce the cost of care and improve the quality of care for patients after PCI,” the authors wrote online August 23 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
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