Geography, Not Health System Affiliations, Determines Patients' Revisits to the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine how frequently patients revisit the emergency department after an initial encounter, and to describe revisit capture rates for the same hospital, health system, and geographic region.

Data sources/study setting

Florida state data from January 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.

Study design

This is a retrospective cohort study of emergency department return visits among Florida adults over an 18-month period. We evaluated pairs of index and 30-day return emergency department visits and compared capture rates for hospital, health system, and geographic units.

Data collection/extraction methods

Data were obtained from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization P

SUBMITTER: Rising KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5867183 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature