ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2017
Hospitalization event notifications and reductions in readmissions of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in the Bronx, New York.
Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Disentangling organizational levers and economic benefits in transitional care programs: a systematic review and configurational analysis.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
- The benefits of health information exchange: an updated systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2018Pooled it
- Effect of Health Information Exchange Plus a Care Transitions Intervention on Post-Hospital Outcomes Among VA Primary Care Patients: a Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Trial
- Perceptions of event notification following discharge to improve geriatric care: qualitative interviews of care team members from a 2-site cluster randomized trial.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2021Trial
- Impact of Provider Health Information Exchange Services on Patient Utilization of Emergency Room and Inpatient Practices in Colorado.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- After-hours, Severity, and Distance are Associated with Non-VHA Emergency Department Use for Older Veterans: Insights from a Regional Health Information Exchange.Journal of geriatric emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Toward alert triage: scalable qualitative coding framework for analyzing alert notes from the Telehealth Intervention Program for Seniors (TIPS).JAMIA open · 2023Article
- An HIT-Supported Care Coordination Framework for Reducing Structural Racism and Discrimination for Patients With ADRD.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2022Review
- Impact of event notification services on timely follow-up and rehospitalization among primary care patients at two Veterans Affairs Medical Centers.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2021Article
- Development of a conceptual framework for linking mHealth applications to eRecord systems in Botswana.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Exploring hospital-based health information technology functions for patients with Alzheimer's Disease and related Dementias.Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- Organizational characteristics and perceptions of clinical event notification services in healthcare settings: a study of health information exchange.JAMIA open · 2020Article
- The associations between query-based and directed health information exchange with potentially avoidable use of health care services.Health services research · 2019Article
- Regional data exchange to improve care for veterans after non-VA hospitalization: a randomized controlled trial.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2019Article
- Reasons Older Veterans Use the Veterans Health Administration and Non-VHA Care in an Urban Environment.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFMArticle
- Strategic use of health information exchange and market share, payer mix, and operating margins.Health care management reviewArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveFollow-up with a primary care provider after hospital discharge has been associated with a reduced likelihood of readmission. However, primary care providers are frequently unaware of their patients' hospitalizations. Event notification may be an effective tool for reducing readmissions by notifying primary care providers when their patients have been admitted to and discharged from a hospital. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe examined the effect of an event notification system on 30-day readmissions in the Bronx, New York. The Bronx has among the highest readmission rates in the country and is a particularly challenging setting to improve care due to the low socioeconomic status of the county and high rates of poor health behaviors among its residents. The study cohort included 2559 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries associated with 14 141 hospital admissions over the period January 2010 through June 2014. Linear regression models with beneficiary-level fixed-effects were used to estimate the impact of event notifications on readmissions by comparing the likelihood of rehospitalization for a beneficiary before and after event notifications were active.
resultsThe unadjusted 30-day readmission rate when event notifications were not active was 29.5% compared to 26.5% when alerts were active. Regression estimates indicated that active hospitalization alert services were associated with a 2.9 percentage point reduction in the likelihood of readmission (95% confidence interval: -5.5, -0.4).
conclusionsAlerting providers through event notifications may be an effective tool for improving the quality and efficiency of care among high-risk populations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.