Using hospital readmission rates to track the quality of care in public hospitals in Singapore
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Research objectives Singapore introduced Casemix-based financing for inpatient and day-surgery cases in the public sector in 1999. The application of Casemix has since been extended beyond financing to fields such as benchmarking, clinical quality and utilization review. Casemix data has been invaluable in enabling the tracking and better understanding of quality of care of healthcare providers, as well as providing a view to better managing them. In this paper, we discuss the use of Casemix data based on a recent study of hospital readmission rates. The study subsequently led to the incorporation of this indicator into the Ministry of Health’s Scorecard for Acute Hospitals.
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