Frailty is associated with poor quality outcomes. To examine associations between frailty and hospital readmission or mortality in Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). Retrospectively assessed the 2016 US Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) including adults ≥ 65 years pre-existing CHD. A validated Hospital Risk Score (HFRS) using ICD-10-CM codes identified risk. Outcomes included: Readmission (30-d...

OBJECTIVES To further explore the relationship of early newborn hospital discharge and readmission for jaundice, and to determine if early hospital discharge was associated with increased severity of jaundice among those readmitted. METHODS We performed a population-based case-control study using Washington State vital statistics, birth certificates, and hospital discharge abstracts from 1991...

BACKGROUND Hospital readmission places a high burden on both health care systems and patients. Most readmissions are thought to be related to the quality of the health care system. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine the causes and rates of early readmission in emergency department in a Tehran hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional investigation was performed to study ...

BACKGROUND Interventions to reduce early readmissions have focused on patient characteristics and the importance of early follow-up; however, less is known about the characteristics of health systems, including quality, capacity, and intensity, and their influence on readmission rates in the United States. Therefore, we examined the association of hospital patterns of medical care with rates of...

BACKGROUND Thirty-day readmission after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is common, costly, and linked to poor patient outcomes. Accordingly, facility-level 30-day readmission rates have been considered as a potential quality measure. However, it is unknown whether facility-level 30-day readmission rates are associated with facility-level mortality. We sought to determine the effect of ...

BACKGROUND Patients who leave hospital against medical advice (AMA) may be at risk of adverse health outcomes and readmission. In this study we examined rates of readmission and predictors of readmission among patients leaving hospital AMA. METHODS We prospectively studied 97 consecutive patients who left the general medicine service of an urban teaching hospital AMA. Each patient was matched...

BACKGROUND Leaving hospital against medical advice may have adverse consequences. Previous studies have been limited by evaluating specific types of patients, small sample sizes and incomplete determination of outcomes. We hypothesized that leaving hospital against medical advice would be associated with increases in subsequent readmission and death. METHODS In a population-based analysis inv...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The hospital admission rate for children receiving chronic dialysis has been increasing over the last decade. Approximately one third of patients with ESRD age 0-19 years are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. The objective of this study was to examine hospital readmissions among a cohort of children receiving chronic dialysis to identify factors a...

OBJECTIVE Hospital readmission is a common but controversial quality measure increasingly used to influence hospital compensation in the US. The objective of this study was to evaluate the causes for 30-day hospital readmission following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) to determine the appropriateness of this performance metric and to identify potential avenues for improved patient car...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective cohort review. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate whether preoperative malnutrition is an independent risk factor for unplanned 30-day readmission after elective spine surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Thirty-day hospital readmission rate is being used as a proxy for quality of care. Accordingly, hospitals and health systems are investing consid...