OBJECTIVE To determine whether the quality of care during a hospital stay is associated with unplanned readmission within 14 days. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING 12 Veterans Affairs hospitals. PATIENTS Men discharged after a hospitalization for diabetes (n = 593), chronic obstructive lung disease (n = 1172), or heart failure (n = 748). The ratio of controls (men without an unplanned r...

BACKGROUND Interest is growing in preventing readmissions as payers start to link reimbursement to readmission rates. The purpose of this study was to assess factors contributing to 30-day readmission for patients undergoing gastric bypass (GB) and determine whether these readmissions may be preventable. METHODS Data were from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) and i...

OBJECTIVES To determine the rate of, and potential risk factors for, unscheduled PICU readmission and assess for variability among PICUs within the United States. DESIGN AND DATA SOURCE This retrospective cohort study used 2005-2008 data from 73 PICUs in the Virtual PICU Systems database. METHODS AND MEASUREMENTS Early (within 48 hr of PICU discharge) and late (later than 48 hr) unscheduled...

BACKGROUND Urgent, unplanned hospital readmissions are increasingly being used to gauge the quality of care. We reviewed urgent readmissions to determine which were potentially avoidable and compared rates of all-cause and avoidable readmissions. METHODS In a multicentre, prospective cohort study, we reviewed all urgent readmissions that occurred within six months among patients discharged to...

BACKGROUND Repeat hospitalizations in veterans with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are understudied. The early readmission rate and potentially modifiable risk-factors for 90-day readmission in veterans with IBD were studied to avert avoidable readmissions. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted using the data from veterans who were admitted to the Minneapolis VA Medical Center ...

Early readmission following hip fracture (HFx) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. We conducted a survival analysis of patients with readmission within 1 year after HFx to elucidate the trend and predictors for readmission. We used Taiwan National Health Insurance Database to recruit HFx patients who underwent operations between 2000 and 2009. Patients < 60 years; with pathological...

Critical Care Medicine www.ccmjournal.org 2773 Objectives: To determine the rate of unplanned PICU readmissions, examine the characteristics of index admissions associated with readmission, and compare outcomes of readmissions versus index admissions. Design: Retrospective cohort analysis. Setting: Ninety North American PICUs that participated in the Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit System...

OBJECTIVES Readmission rate is increasingly being viewed as a key indicator of health system performance. Medication regimen complexity index scores may be predictive of readmissions; however, few studies have examined this potential association. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether medication regimen complexity index is associated with all-cause 30-day readmission after...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Complications resulting in hospital readmission are important concerns for those considering bariatric surgery, yet present understanding of the risk for these events is limited to a small number of patient factors. We sought to identify demographic characteristics, concomitant morbidities, and perioperative factors associated with hospital readmission following bariat...

background: despite the positive outcomes reported with cardiac rehabilitation (cr), its impacts have been reported to be different from a region or country to another, which may be due to the different contents of rehabilitation programs. objectives: to investigate the effect of cr on cardiovascular risk factors. patients and methods: this is a retrospective cohort study on the data from imam ...