Determining 30-day Readmission Risk for Heart Failure Patients
The first article under consideration examines the ways to predict readmission rates among patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Therefore, the research questions developed by the authors are: How to create a scale to address the mentioned task? Which demographic and clinical factors can affect the precision of the assessment outcomes? Their consideration within the research scope is guided by the aim to reveal the characteristics affecting the possibility of complications for people with CHF (Chamberlain et al., 2018). Hence, the scholars hypothesize that the evaluation of the pre-defined set of factors will reduce the number of readmissions and the duration of hospital stay, thereby cutting the treatment costs. For the purposes of the study, dependent and independent variables are used. The former includes the length of hospitalization, inpatient mortality, and the frequency of complications, whereas the latter is presented by patients’ personal characteristics.
Reducing Rates of Readmission and Development of an Outpatient Management Plan
The second article is the study of outpatient disease management in the case of pulmonary hypertension (PH). This paper’s aim is to elaborate on the theoretical basis for the absent guidelines for improving the health of people with this condition. In order to formulate the task and address the gaps in healthcare practices, the scholars pose the following research questions: How can the measures used for enhancing the treatment outcomes in CHF be applied to PH? How can this knowledge reduce the readmission rates for patients with PH? (Dolan et al., 2020). From this perspective, the hypothesis is that the similarity of the mentioned conditions allows adopting one’s measures for another’s better management. In research, the independent variables are presented by CHF interventions, mortality rates, and population size, whereas the dependent variable is the possible results of their use for people with PH.
References
Chamberlain, R. S., Sond, J., Mahendraraj, K., Lau, C. S., & Siracuse, B. L. (2018). Determining 30-day readmission risk for heart failure patients: The Readmission After Heart Failure scale. International Journal of General Medicine, 11, 127-141. Web.
Dolan, J., Mandras, S., Mehta, J. P., Navas, V., Tarver, J., Chakinala, M., & Rahaghi, F. (2020). Reducing rates of readmission and development of an outpatient management plan in pulmonary hypertension: Lessons from congestive heart failure management.Pulmonary Circulation, 10(4). Web.