Thirty-day hospital readmissions in systemic lupus erythematosus: predictors and hospital- and state-level variation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has one of the highest hospital readmission rates among chronic conditions. This study was undertaken to identify patient-level, hospital-level, and geographic predictors of 30-day hospital readmissions associated with SLE.

Methods

Using hospital discharge databases from 5 geographically dispersed states, we studied all-cause readmission of SLE patients between 2008 and 2009. We evaluated each hospitalization as a possible index event leading up to a readmission, our primary outcome. We accounted for clustering of hospitalizations within patients and within hospitals and adjusted for hospital case mix. Using multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression, we examined factors associated with 30-day readmission and calculated risk-sta

SUBMITTER: Yazdany J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4180780 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature