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...

BACKGROUND Risk factors for early mortality after pulmonary embolism (PE) are widely known. However, it is uncertain which factors are associated with early readmission after PE. We sought to identify predictors of readmission after an admission for PE. METHODS We studied 14 426 patient discharges with a primary diagnosis of PE from 186 acute care hospitals in Pennsylvania from January 1, 200...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify reasons for and predictors of readmission. BACKGROUND Short-term readmissions have been identified as an important cause of escalating health care costs, and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is 1 of the most expensive procedures. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 30-day readmissions for 33,936 New York State patients who underwen...

BACKGROUND Reducing 30-day heart failure readmission rates is a national priority. Yet, little is known about how hospitals address the problem and whether hospital-based processes of care are associated with reductions in readmission rates. METHODS AND RESULTS We surveyed 100 randomly selected hospitals participating in the Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure quality improvement program re...

A recent Canadian Institute for Health Information report on all-cause readmission identified that cancer patients had higher-than-average readmission rates. This study provides further insight on the experience of cancer patients, exploring the risk factors associated with readmission at patient, hospital and community levels. An analysis showed that patient characteristics, including the reas...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Short-term readmission rates are becoming widely used as a quality and performance metric for hospitals. Data on unplanned short-term readmission after spine fusion for deformity in pediatric patients are limited. PURPOSE To characterize the rate and risk factors for short-term readmission after spine fusion for deformity in pediatric patients. STUDY DESIGN This is a retr...

Objectives: The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program reduces payments to hospitals with excess readmissions for three common medical conditions and recently extended its readmission program to surgical patients. We sought to investigate readmission intensity as measured by readmission cost for high-risk surgeries and examine predictors of higher readmission costs. Methods: We used data from ...

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...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the impact of stimulant use on outcome in early psychosis. Ceasing substance use may lead to positive outcomes in psychosis. AIMS To examine whether baseline cannabis or stimulant disorders and ongoing drug use predict readmission within 2 years of a first psychosis admission. METHOD Predictors of readmission were examined with Cox regression in 7269 peo...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review the existing literature on readmission rates, predictors, and reasons for readmission among adults with cancer.
. DATA SOURCES U.S.-based empirical studies reporting readmission rates from January 2005 to December 2015 were identified using four online library databases-PubMed, CINAHL®, EconLit, and the online bibliography of the National Cancer Institute's Survei...