PREVENTION READMISSION

2. Which of the following is a high-risk condition for readmission?

3. A rehospitalization occurs when the person is being admitted to any hospital for treatment of the original condition.

4. About________________________Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted within 30 days every year.

5. The specific role and responsibility that home health staff play in preventing rehospitalizations is:

6. A readmission or rehospitalization occurs when

a. a patient is transferred from one hospital to another
b. a patient is admitted back to the hospital within the following year
c. a patient who was discharged from a hospital is hospitalized again within 30 days of discharge
d. a patient is admitted to a hospital after an outpatient procedure

7. Which of the following could be indications of medication noncompliance?

8. What are some indications that a patient is not taking her medication as directed?

9. Which of the following is a strategy to help a patient comply with medication instructions?

a. Write the instructions down and keep it with you, the home health staff, at all times
b. Tell the patient to take the medications at the time it says to on the bottle
c. Organize a pill box and review it with your patient
d. Call the pharmacy to cancel the prescriptions

10. Which of the following strategies helps ensure timely physician follow-up?

a. Ensure the appointment is scheduled within two months of discharge.
b. Use a large calendar for appointment dates. Place it in an area where all can see.
c. Wait to determine whether the appointment happens, and then call and yell at the doctor if it doesn't.
d. Both a and c.