Jacqueline Graham
Effect of Chronic Heart Failure Clinic on Hospital Admission Rates
SchoolHawken High School
ProgramScience
MentorPam Alessandro, BSN
DepartmentChronic Heart Failure Clinic at Marymount Hospital
- Research
- Effect of Chronic Heart Failure Clinic on Hospital Admission Rates
- Hypothesis
- Patients who receive outpatient education and health monitoring provided by the Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) Clinic have fewer admissions to the hospital than patients who do not attend the clinic. Also, patients who are enrolled in a CHF clinic have a decreased length of stay when they are admitted to the hospital for heart failure than patients not enrolled in a CHF clinic.
- Methodology
- The study included a sample population of 95 active patients enrolled in Marymount Hospital's CHF clinic, and 648 Marymount Hospital patients with CHF not enrolled in the clinic. Data were gathered from hospital readmission rates of CHF clinic patients one year before their enrollment in the clinic. The data also included these patients’ hospital readmission rates in 2008-2009 after enrolling in the clinic, compared with those of patients not enrolled in the clinic. Collected data included gender, age, comorbidities, medications and number of days spent in the hospital.
- Outcomes
- Enrollment in the CHF clinic caused the number of readmissions within the sample population to decrease by 44.12%, and length of stay to decrease by 61.46% percent. The patients who have the highest hospital readmission rates are the ones who have been referred to the clinic, but who have not gone.
Interpretations
De adentro hacia afuera /From the Inside, Out by Ashley Black
Un Cuentito de un Seno/A Tale of a Man by Hannah Meropol
Cuando el corazón deja de latir/When the Heart Stops Beating by Sydney Davis
Ticking Away by Monica Neff
El infarto/The Heart Attack by Jessica Weiner
