Thirty-day hospital readmission following discharge from postacute rehabilitation in fee-for-service Medicare patients.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently identified 30-day readmission after discharge from inpatient rehabilitation facilities as a national quality indicator. Research is needed to determine the rates and factors related to readmission in this patient population.

Objective

To determine 30-day readmission rates and factors related to readmission for patients receiving postacute inpatient rehabilitation.

Design, setting, and patients

Retrospective cohort study of records for 736,536 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries (mean age, 78.0 [SD, 7.3] years) discharged from 1365 inpatient rehabilitation facilities to the community in 2006 through 2011. Sixty-three percent of patients were women, and 85.1% were non-Hispanic white.

Main outcomes an

SUBMITTER: Ottenbacher KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4085109 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature