BACKGROUND Hospital inpatient care for patients with diabetes was estimated to cost $76 billion in 2012. Substantial expense resulted from those patients having multiple hospitalizations. The objective was to compare the risk for diabetes-related hospital readmission in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with sulfonylureas (SUs) compared to those treated with other oral antihyperglycemic age...

BACKGROUND Hospital readmission is gathering increasing attention as a measure of health care quality and a potential cost-saving target. The purpose of this prospective study was to determine risk factors for readmission within 30 days of discharge after gastrectomy for patients with gastric cancer. METHODS We conducted a prospective study of patients undergoing radical gastrectomy for gastr...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between community factors and hospital readmission rates. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING We examined all hospitals with publicly reported 30-day readmission rates for patients discharged during July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2010, with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), or pneumonia (PN). We linked these to publicly available county data from t...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that sustained differences in readmission rate for acute asthma were associated with variations in clinical practice. DESIGN Data were collected by retrospective review of case notes, using the criteria recommended by the British Thoracic Society. SETTING Two city National Health Service (NHS) hospitals that had recorded a sustained difference in readmission...

Heart failure (HF) is the most common hospital discharge diagnosis among the elderly. It accounts for nearly 1.4 million hospitalizations and $21 billion in spending per year in the United States. Readmission rates remain high with estimates ranging from 15-day readmission rates of 13%, 30day readmission rates of 25%, to 6-month readmission rates of 50%. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Ser...

Background and aims: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a great burden not only during hospitalization but also after hospital discharge. The objective of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the hospital readmission rates and the mortality after survival of AKI. Methods: Pubmed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, OVID and EMBASE databases through November 2015 were searched to identify studies reportin...

BACKGROUND Hospital readmission for acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) occurs in up to 30% of patients, leading to excess morbidity and poor survival. Physiological risk factors predict readmission, but the impact of modifiable psychosocial risk factors remains uncertain. We aimed to evaluate whether psychosocial risk factors independently predict readmission for AECOPD in patients referred to...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Lower respiratory infections (LRIs) are among the most common reasons for pediatric hospitalization and among the diagnoses with the highest number of readmissions. Characterizing LRI readmissions would help guide efforts to prevent them. We assessed variation in pediatric LRI readmission rates, risk factors for readmission, and readmission diagnoses. METHODS We analy...

BACKGROUND Reducing hospital readmission rates is a national priority; however, evidence about hospital strategies that are associated with lower readmission rates is limited. We sought to identify hospital strategies that were associated with lower readmission rates for patients with heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS Using data from a Web-based survey of hospitals participating in national ...

Background and objective Patients hospitalized for acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a high 30-day hospital readmission rate, which has a large impact on the health care system and patients' quality of life. The use of a prediction model to quantify a patient's risk of readmission may assist in directing interventions to patients who will benefit most. The ...