Association of distance between hospitals and volume of shared admissions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To assess whether decreasing distance between hospitals was associated with the number of shared patients (patients with an admission to one hospital and a readmission to another).

Methods

Data were from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State Inpatient Databases (Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Utah [2017], New York, Vermont [2016]) and the American Hospital Association Annual Survey (2016 & 2017). This was a cross-sectional analysis of patients who had an index admission and subsequent readmission at different hospitals within the same year. We used unadjusted and adjusted linear regression to evaluate the association between the number of shared patients and the distance between admission-readmission hospital pairs.

Results

There were 691 hospita

SUBMITTER: Turbow SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9753317 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature