Readmission to hospital: a measure of quality or outcome?

Hospital Readmission: Quality Indicator or Statistical Inevitability?

Hospital readmission rate has been a long-considered quality of care indicator in adult medicine, albeit with mixed reviews. As we begin to grapple with the quality significance and preventability of readmissions in pediatrics, however, we are outpaced by movement in the insurance industry. Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce...

Hospital readmission: quality indicator or statistical inevitability?

Hospital readmission rate has been a long-considered quality of care indicator in adult medicine, albeit with mixed reviews. As we begin to grapple with the quality significance and preventability of readmissions in pediatrics, however, we are outpaced by movement in the insurance industry. Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce...

High density Lipoprotein; What to Measure: Quality or Quantity?

Same-Hospital Readmission Rates as a Measure of Pediatric Quality of Care.

IMPORTANCE Health care systems, payers, and hospitals use hospital readmission rates as a measure of quality. Although hospitals can track readmissions back to themselves (hospital A to hospital A), they lack information when their patients are readmitted to different hospitals (hospital A to hospital B). Because hospitals lack different-hospital readmission (DHR) data, they may underestimate a...

A Survey on Factors Contributing to Hospital Patient Readmission

Background and Objectives: Patient readmission is an important criterion in performance evaluation of healthcare settings. Identifying the causes of the readmissions would help the policymakers in designing strategies for efficient management of health facilities. This stud aimed to explore factors contributing to readmission by sampling from an Iranian hospital. Methods: Clinical records of ...