Hospital readmission performance and patterns of readmission: retrospective cohort study of Medicare admissions

Objectives To determine whether high performing hospitals with low 30 day risk standardized readmission rates have a lower proportion of readmissions from specific diagnoses and time periods after admission or instead have a similar distribution of readmission diagnoses and timing to lower performin...

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Main Authors: Dharmarajan, Kumar, Hsieh, Angela F, Lin, Zhenqiu, Bueno, Héctor, Ross, Joseph S, Horwitz, Leora I, Barreto-Filho, José Augusto, Kim, Nancy, Suter, Lisa G, Bernheim, Susannah M, Drye, Elizabeth E, Krumholz, Harlan M
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898430/