Predicting Emergency Department "Bouncebacks": A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The short-term return visit rate among patients discharged from emergency departments (ED) is a quality metric and target for interventions. The ability to accurately identify which patients are more likely to revisit the ED could allow EDs and health systems to develop more focused interventions, but efforts to reduce revisits have not yet found success. Whether patients with a high number of ED visits are at increased risk of a return visit remains underexplored.

Methods

This was a population-based, retrospective, cohort study using administrative data from a large physician partnership. We included patients discharged from EDs from 80 hospitals in seven states from July 2014 - June 2016. We performed multivariable logistic regression of short-term return visi

SUBMITTER: Montoy JCC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6860392 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature