Readmissions After Acute Myocardial Infarction: How Often Do Patients Return to the Discharging Hospital?

ABSTRACT: Background When patients require readmission after a recent myocardial infarction (MI), returning to the discharging (index) hospital may be associated with better outcomes as a result of greater continuity in care. However, little evidence exists to answer this frequent patient question. Methods and Results Among Medicare patients aged ≥65 years discharged home alive post-MI from 491 US hospitals in the ACTION (Acute Coronary Treatment Intervention Outcomes Network) Registry, we compared reason for readmission, duration of rehospitalization, and 30-day mortality between patients readmitted to the index versus nonindex hospital within 30 days of index MI discharge. Among 53 471 MI patients, 7715 (14%) were readmitted within 30 days, and most readmitted patients (73%) returned to the discha

SUBMITTER: Rymer JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6806031 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature