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 ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Risk-standardized hospital readmission rates are used as publicly reported measures reflecting quality of care. Valid risk-standardized models adjust for differences in patient-level factors across hospitals. We conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature to identify models that compare hospital-level poststroke readmission rates, evaluate patient-level risk...

BACKGROUND Hospital readmission occurs often and is difficult to predict. Polypharmacy has been identified as a potential risk factor for hospital readmission. However, the overall impact of the number of discharge medications on hospital readmission is still undefined. METHODS To determine whether the number of discharge medications is predictive of thirty-day readmission using a retrospecti...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determine patient and hospital-level risk factors associated with 30-day readmission for patients undergoing inpatient otolaryngologic surgery. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS We analyzed the State Inpatient Database (SID) from California for patients who underwent otolaryngologic surgery between 2008 and 2010. Readmission rates, readmission diagnoses,...

there are several factors that lead to early return of patients to the medical centers. these could be due to latent illnesses, misdiagnosis or even inadequate medical care due to staff being worn out. determining the mentioned factors could help decrease the rate of readmission, restore patient's confidence in health centers and decrease the cost of medical care. chi lung wu et al. in 2010 sou...

BACKGROUND Readmission penalties are central to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) efforts to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care spending. However, many clinicians believe that readmission metrics may unfairly penalize low-mortality hospitals because mortality and readmission are competing risks. The objective of this study is to compare hospital ranking based on ...