Disagreement in Readmission Rates After Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Across Data Sets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2014, the Affordable Care Act Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program began penalizing hospitals for excessive readmission rates 30 days after total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Various data sets with nonstandardized validation processes report readmission data, which may provide conflicting outcome values for the same patient populations.

Methods

We queried 4 separate data sets: the American Joint Replacement Registry, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services billing data, the Vizient data set, and an advanced analytics integration (Cognos) report from our electronic medical record. We identified 2763 patients who underwent primary TKA and THA at a single academic medical center from June 2016 to June 2019. We then matched 613 su

SUBMITTER: Zhao S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8141417 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature