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An 8 page research paper, which includes a 1 page abstract, that examines the literature pertaining to the effect of evidence-based guidelines on hospital readmission rates for elderly congestive heart failure patients. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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(CHF). Method: A keyword search was undertaken using the following EBSCOhost databases: CINAHL, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Humanities International
Complete, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE with Full Text, and Military & Government Collection. Keywords utilized were applicable to the subject and articles were selected based on upon relevance to the topic
and publication in English during the last years in a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal. Results: The results of the review indicated that this area of research has not been
extensively researched. There is some direction in the literature pertaining to CHF management and patient outcomes, but there is also some research that suggests that evidence-based guidelines improve CHF patient
outcomes, as well as some evidence that indicates that it does not. Discussion: Based on the mixed results of the investigation, the author concludes by calling for additional research
that specifically investigates the studys research question. Key terms: congestive heart failure, hospital readmissions, heart failure, randomized controlled trials, evidence-based guidelines. Introduction Hospital readmission rates have been identified
by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a measure on which value-based hospital payment. Beginning in 2013, the CMS will decrease total reimbursements to hospitals that have
the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, this reduction will be 1 percent, but it will rise to
3 percent by 2015. As this indicates, there is considerable pressure on hospitals to reduce the rate of readmissions for CHF patients. Historically, it has been a prevailing sentiment that
preventable readmission results from system failures and quality shortcomings in the delivery of care (Vest, et al, 2010). Therefore, the purpose of the following study is to investigate the effectiveness
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