What Are They Worth? Six 30-Day Readmission Risk Scores for Medical Inpatients Externally Validated in a Swiss Cohort

A Public-Private Partnership Develops and Externally Validates a 30-Day Hospital Readmission Risk Prediction Model

INTRODUCTION Preventing the occurrence of hospital readmissions is needed to improve quality of care and foster population health across the care continuum. Hospitals are being held accountable for improving transitions of care to avert unnecessary readmissions. Advocate Health Care in Chicago and Cerner (ACC) collaborated to develop all-cause, 30-day hospital readmission risk prediction models...

Holding relationships in general practice: what are they? How do they work? Are they worth having?

Predictors of 30-Day Readmission Following Inpatient Rehabilitation for Patients at High Risk for Hospital Readmission.

BACKGROUND The proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 30-day readmission risk standardization models for inpatient rehabilitation facilities establish readmission risk for patients at admission based on a limited set of core variables. Considering functional recovery during the rehabilitation stay may help clinicians further stratify patient groups at high risk for hospital rea...

Readmission After COPD Exacerbation Scale: determining 30-day readmission risk for COPD patients

BACKGROUND COPD affects over 13 million Americans, and accounts for over half a million hospitalizations annually. The Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, established by the Affordable Care Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce payments to hospitals with excess readmissions for COPD as of 2015. This study sought to develop a predictive readmission scale to id...

Retrospective cohort study of medication adherence and risk for 30-day hospital readmission in a Medicare Cost Plan.

PURPOSE Reducing hospital readmissions requires deploying appropriate interventions to groups at highest risk for readmission. Long-term medication adherence may indicate one's ability to manage recovery and chronic illness after discharge. If so, medication adherence also may be a predictor of hospital readmission. DESIGN The objective of this study was to test the association of long-term m...