Functional Status Is Associated With 30-Day Potentially Preventable Readmissions Following Home Health Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Beginning in 2019, home health agencies' rates of potentially preventable hospital readmissions over the 30 days following discharge will be publicly reported.

Objectives

Our primary objective was to determine the association between patients' functional status at discharge from home health care and 30-day potentially preventable readmissions. A secondary objective was to identify the most common conditions resulting in potentially preventable readmissions.

Design

This was a retrospective cohort study.

Participants

A total of 1,510,297 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries discharged from home health care in 2013-2015. Average age was 75.9 (SD, 10.9) years, 60.0% were female, and 84.2% non-Hispanic white.

Measurements

Thirty-day potentially p

SUBMITTER: Middleton A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6358180 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature