Home Health Care: Nurse-Physician Communication, Patient Severity, and Hospital Readmission.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate whether communication failures between home health care nurses and physicians during an episode of home care after hospital discharge are associated with hospital readmission, stratified by patients at high and low risk of readmission.

Data source/study setting

We linked Visiting Nurse Services of New York electronic medical records for patients with congestive heart failure in 2008 and 2009 to hospitalization claims data for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

Study design

Linear regression models and a propensity score matching approach were used to assess the relationship between communication failure and 30-day readmission, separately for patients with high-risk and low-risk readmission probabilities.

Data collection/extraction methods

SUBMITTER: Pesko MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5867182 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature