Dataset Information

The Contribution of Skilled Nursing Facilities to Hospitals' Readmission Rate.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relative influence of hospital and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) on 30-day rehospitalization.

Data sources/settings

Elderly Medicare beneficiaries newly admitted to a SNF following hospitalization.

Study design

We ranked hospitals and SNFs into quartiles based on previous years' adjusted rehospitalization rates (ARRs) and examined how rehospitalizations from a given hospital vary depending upon the admitting SNF ARR quartile. We examined whether the availability of SNFs with low rehospitalization rates influenced hospitals' SNF readmission rates and whether changes in a hospital's ARR over 3 years is associated with changes in the SNFs to which they discharge.