Hospital Characteristics Associated With Postdischarge Hospital Readmission, Observation, and Emergency Department Utilization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whether types of hospitals with high readmission rates also have high overall postdischarge acute care utilization (including emergency department and observation care) is unknown.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis.

Subjects

Nonfederal United States acute care hospitals.

Measures

Using methodology established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, we calculated each hospital's "excess days in acute care" for fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare beneficiaries aged over 65 years discharged after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure (HF), or pneumonia, representing the mean difference between predicted and expected total days of acute care utilization in the 30 days following hospital discharge, per 100 discharges. We assesse

SUBMITTER: Horwitz LI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6170884 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature