Nursing Home Compare Star Rankings and the Variation in Potentially Preventable Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions.

ABSTRACT: Measurement of the quality of US health care increasingly emphasizes clinical outcomes over clinical processes. Nursing Home Compare Star Ratings are provided by Medicare to help select better nursing home care. The authors determined the rates and types of 2 important clinical outcomes-potentially preventable hospital admissions and potentially preventable emergency department (ED) visits-for a subset of 439,011 long-term nursing homes residents residing in 12,883 nursing homes throughout the United States over a 2-year period (2010-2011) and compared them with the Star Rating system. This study found that (1) the likelihood of potentially preventable events increases with increasing burden of chronic illness, (2) the principle reasons for hospital admissions and ED visits (eg, septicemia

SUBMITTER: Fuller RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6459266 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature