Hospital-Readmission Risk - Isolating Hospital Effects from Patient Effects.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To isolate hospital effects on risk-standardized hospital-readmission rates, we examined readmission outcomes among patients who had multiple admissions for a similar diagnosis at more than one hospital within a given year.

Methods

We divided the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hospital-wide readmission measure cohort from July 2014 through June 2015 into two random samples. All the patients in the cohort were Medicare recipients who were at least 65 years of age. We used the first sample to calculate the risk-standardized readmission rate within 30 days for each hospital, and we classified hospitals into performance quartiles, with a lower readmission rate indicating better performance (performance-classification sample). The study sample (identified f

SUBMITTER: Krumholz HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5671772 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature