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Weekly JAMA Feature for June 1
WORSENING OUTCOMES FOR HEART FAILURE PATIENTS AFTER SHORTER AND MORE SUCCESSFUL HOSPITAL STAYS
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo until 4 p.m. (ET) Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
June 1, 2010
VO: OVER THE LAST DECADE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS ARE EXPERIENCING SHORTER AND MORE SUCCESSFUL HOSPITAL STAYS. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY LEAVE THE HOSPITAL ESPECIALLY IN THAT CRUCIAL 30 DAY PERIOD AFTER DISCHARGE HAD BEEN UNCLEAR. A NEW STUDY SHOWS THE RISK OF BEING ADMITTED TO A NURSING HOME, RE-ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL AND DYING IN THE MONTH FOLLOWING HOSPITAL DISCHARGE IS RISING.
“There was a 50 percent increase in sending people to nursing homes, there was a marked increase in the amount of times people needed to come back to be re-hospitalized, the likelihood of dying in that period between leaving the hospital and 30 days actually increased.”
VO: DR. HARLAN KRUMHOLZ FROM YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED MORE THAN SIX MILLION “FEE FOR SERVICE” MEDICARE BENEFICARIES HOSPITALIZED FOR HEART FAILURE FROM 1993 TO 2006. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“It’s actually extraordinarily important at that time when people are ready to go home that they get the support they need, they get the education they need and that we pool together the resources including their physicians, home health, others, social workers who can help them be successful in the outside.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
June 1, 2010
VO: OVER THE LAST DECADE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS ARE EXPERIENCING SHORTER AND MORE SUCCESSFUL HOSPITAL STAYS. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY LEAVE THE HOSPITAL ESPECIALLY IN THAT CRUCIAL 30 DAY PERIOD AFTER DISCHARGE HAD BEEN UNCLEAR. A NEW STUDY SHOWS THE RISK OF BEING ADMITTED TO A NURSING HOME, RE-ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL AND DYING IN THE MONTH FOLLOWING HOSPITAL DISCHARGE IS RISING.
“There was a 50 percent increase in sending people to nursing homes, there was a marked increase in the amount of times people needed to come back to be re-hospitalized, the likelihood of dying in that period between leaving the hospital and 30 days actually increased.”
VO: DR. HARLAN KRUMHOLZ FROM YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED MORE THAN SIX MILLION “FEE FOR SERVICE” MEDICARE BENEFICARIES HOSPITALIZED FOR HEART FAILURE FROM 1993 TO 2006. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“It’s actually extraordinarily important at that time when people are ready to go home that they get the support they need, they get the education they need and that we pool together the resources including their physicians, home health, others, social workers who can help them be successful in the outside.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.