Analysis of Hospital-Level Readmission Rates and Variation in Adverse Events Among Patients With Pneumonia in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

It is known that hospitalized patients who experience adverse events are at greater risk of readmission; however, it is unknown whether patients admitted to hospitals with higher risk-standardized readmission rates had a higher risk of in-hospital adverse events.

Objective

To evaluate whether patients with pneumonia admitted to hospitals with higher risk-standardized readmission rates had a higher risk of adverse events.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study linked patient-level adverse events data from the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System (MPSMS), a randomly selected medical record abstracted database, to the hospital-level pneumonia-specific all-cause readmissions data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Pati

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9157270 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature