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Nurse and PhD student Nanna Selmer Winther participated in the well attended debate \u201cHow do we reduce readmissions among elderly patients with multiple diseases?\u201d at Folkem\u00f8det on Bornholm in connection with the presentation of the research project Bridging Safe Elderly Care.
\nThe fact is that one in four elders with multimorbidity is readmitted within 30 days. This costs both quality of life and resources \u2013 and we know that many readmissions can be prevented. But how?
\nAmong the other debaters: Deputy Medical Director at Zealand University Hospital Morten Ziebell, Business Development Manager Jesper Eriksen (also a partner in the project), and Director of Lolland Municipality, Thomas de Richelieu \u2013 there was agreement on one thing: We need to understand the underlying risk factors better \u2013 and act on them.
\n\ud83d\udc65 In the research project, Nanna Selmer Winther interviewed over 300 patients and pointed out that social and demographic factors play a much greater role than we might think. Thomas de Richelieu noted that a complex picture often emerges, which is not always about health, and is looking forward to having tools to prioritise where to intervene \u2013 so that the right systems can be built.
\nMorten Ziebell challenged the status quo and asked whether the current length of hospital stays may have become too short \u2013 and reminded us of the holistic perspective on the patient.
\nIn the research project, an AI-based data model is being developed to identify which older people are at risk of readmission and why, so that prevention can be put in place in time \u2013 for example, at home or in municipal care. The large amounts of collected data will form the basis of the AI model.
\nJesper Eriksen was able to reassure a citizen that no one will look at an individual\u2019s personal data, but only at data sets \ud83d\udcac \u201cData is a way of reducing complexity.\u201d
\nMorten Ziebell pointed out that prevention at home will be a central priority in the health reform and that we need to find good solutions together to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
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\ud83d\udc49 Conclusion: To reduce readmissions, we need to understand and share knowledge about risk factors. AI-based tools can help \u2013 but the solutions must be developed collectively. Bridging Safe Elderly Care is an important step on the way. <\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project-bsec.forskning.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}