Hospital readmission disparity measure for evaluating hospital performance and penalties.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The excess readmission ratio (ERR) is currently used to determine penalties for hospitals with excessive readmission rates. To determine whether the effectiveness of alternative measures, such as the Risk-Standardized Readmission Rate (RSRR), or Excess Days in Acute Care (EDAC), or differences between paired measures, would provide comparable or superior assessments.

Methods

A retrospective national study on readmission measures. This study analyzed national readmission data from 3,047 hospitals for the fiscal year (FY) 2022. We measured the agreements and disparity scores in hospital performance assessments, as well as the changes in penalty status between the paired readmission measures.

Results

The ERR and RSRR measures showed a significantly high degree

SUBMITTER: Yi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12514812 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature