A Systematic Review

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  • Devan Kansagara
چکیده

AN INCREASING BODY OF LITerature attempts to describe and validate hospital readmission risk prediction tools. Interest in such models has grown for 2 reasons. First, transitional care interventions may reduce readmissions among chronically ill adults. Readmission risk assessment could be used to help target the delivery of these resource-intensive interventions to the patients at greatest risk. Ideally, models designed for this purpose would provide clinically relevant stratification of readmission risk and give information early enough during the hospitalization to trigger a transitional care intervention, many of which involve discharge planning and begin well before hospital discharge. Second, there is interest in using readmission rates as a quality metric. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently began using readmission rates as a publicly reported metric and has plans to lower reimbursement to hospitals

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تاریخ انتشار 2011