Project Seeks To Cut Hospital Heart Failure Readmissions
Five UC medical schools and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will use a three-year, $9.9 million grant to explore two approaches aimed at reducing hospital readmissions among heart failure patients. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provided the funding as part of its Clinical and Health Outcomes Initiative in Comparative Effectiveness program, which seeks to provide consumers with best practices information for health care decisions.
- "AHRQ Funds Project To Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions" (Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 10/5).