Trends in Readmission and Mortality Rates Following Heart Failure Hospitalization in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System From 2007 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Veterans Affairs Health Care System provide incentives for hospitals to reduce 30-day readmission and mortality rates. In contrast with the large body of evidence describing readmission and mortality in the Medicare system, it is unclear how heart failure readmission and mortality rates have changed during this period in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System.

Objectives

To evaluate trends in readmission and mortality after heart failure admission in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System, which had no financial penalties, in a decade involving focus on heart failure readmission reduction (2007-2017).

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used data from all Veterans Affairs-paid heart fail

SUBMITTER: Parizo JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7301300 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature