Presenter:
Dr. Nancy Novotny
Assistant Professor
Methodist College of Nursing, Peoria

Title:
Using Pra to Predict Medicare Readmissions

Description:
Dr. Novotny will present her research on predicting early hospital readmission for a cohort of adult inpatients using the Probability of Repeated Admission (Pra) instrument—which built on her work shared at The Society for Hospital Medicine. Dr. Novotny is the principal investigator of a current study entitled: "Predicting Patients who are Likely to be Readmitted to the Hospital within a Month”. In this session she will discuss her research findings and the use of Pra in clinical settings.

This continuing nursing education activity was submitted for approval to the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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