Same-Hospital Readmission Rates as a Measure of Pediatric Quality of Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health care systems, payers, and hospitals use hospital readmission rates as a measure of quality. Although hospitals can track readmissions back to themselves (hospital A to hospital A), they lack information when their patients are readmitted to different hospitals (hospital A to hospital B). Because hospitals lack different-hospital readmission (DHR) data, they may underestimate all-hospital readmission (AHR) rates (hospital A to hospital A or B).

Objectives

To determine the prevalence of 30-day pediatric DHRs; to assess the effect of DHR on readmission performance; and to identify patient and hospital characteristics associated with DHR.

Design, setting, and participants

We analyzed all-payer inpatient claims for 701,263 pediatric discharges (patients a

SUBMITTER: Khan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5336323 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature