Preventable Admissions on a General Medicine Service: Prevalence, Causes and Comparison with AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicators-A Cross-Sectional Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rates of preventable admissions will soon be publicly reported and used in calculating performance-based payments. The current method of assessing preventable admissions, the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Preventable Quality Indicators (PQI) rate, is drawn from claims data and was originally designed to assess population-level access to care.

Objective

To identify the prevalence and causes of preventable admissions by attending physician review and to compare its performance with the PQI tool in identifying preventable admissions.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Setting

General medicine service at an academic medical center.

Participants

Consecutive inpatient admissions from December 1-15, 2013.

Main measures

Survey of

SUBMITTER: Patel KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4870420 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature