Hospital revisits within 30 days after discharge for medical conditions targeted by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in the United States: national retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine any changes in total hospital revisits within 30 days of discharge after a hospital stay for medical conditions targeted by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP).

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Hospital stays among Medicare patients for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia between 1 January 2012 and 1 October 2015.

Participants

Medicare fee-for-service patients aged 65 or over.

Main outcomes

Total hospital revisits within 30 days of discharge after hospital stays for medical conditions targeted by the HRRP, and by type of revisit: treat-and-discharge visit to an emergency department, observation stay (not leading to inpatient readmission), and inpatient readmission. Patient subgroups (ag

SUBMITTER: Wadhera RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6689820 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature