Physician Financial Incentives to Reduce Unplanned Hospital Readmissions: an Interrupted Time Series Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2012, the Ministry of Health in British Columbia, Canada, introduced a $75 incentive payment that could be claimed by hospital physicians each time they produced a written post-discharge care plan for a complex patient at the time of hospital discharge.

Objective

To examine whether physician financial payments incentivizing enhanced discharge planning reduce subsequent unplanned hospital readmissions.

Design

Interrupted time series analysis of population-based hospitalization data.

Participants

Individuals with one or more eligible hospitalizations occurring in British Columbia between 2007 and 2017.

Main measures

The proportion of index hospital discharges with subsequent unplanned hospital readmission within 30 days, as measured each mont

SUBMITTER: Staples JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8606373 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature