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Jacques Donzé

Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Publications -  63
Citations -  2310

Jacques Donzé is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 49 publications receiving 1595 citations. Previous affiliations of Jacques Donzé include University of Lausanne & Harvard University.

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Potentially Avoidable 30-Day Hospital Readmissions in Medical Patients Derivation and Validation of a Prediction Model

TL;DR: This simple prediction model identifies before discharge the risk of potentially avoidable 30-day readmission in medical patients and has potential to easily identify patients who may need more intensive transitional care interventions.
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Causes and patterns of readmissions in patients with common comorbidities: retrospective cohort study.

TL;DR: In patients with a comorbidity of heart failure, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, or chronic kidney disease, the most common diagnosis of potentially avoidable readmission was acute heart failure.
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Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral Anticoagulation Therapy

TL;DR: It is suggested that being at risk of falls is not a valid reason to avoid oral anticoagulants in medical patients, and patients on oral antICOagulant with high falls risk have an increased risk of major bleeding.
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Scores to Predict Major Bleeding Risk During Oral Anticoagulation Therapy: A Prospective Validation Study

TL;DR: The performance of 7 clinical scoring systems in predicting major bleeding events in patients receiving oral anticoagulant therapy was poor and not better than physicians' subjective assessments.