Hospital readmission performance and patterns of readmission: retrospective cohort study of Medicare admissions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether high performing hospitals with low 30 day risk standardized readmission rates have a lower proportion of readmissions from specific diagnoses and time periods after admission or instead have a similar distribution of readmission diagnoses and timing to lower performing institutions.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Medicare beneficiaries in the United States.

Participants

Patients aged 65 and older who were readmitted within 30 days after hospital admission for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia in 2007-09.

Main outcome measures

Readmission diagnoses were classified with a modified version of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' condition categories, and readmission timing was cla

SUBMITTER: Dharmarajan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3898430 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature