OBJECTIVE To investigate changes in maternal length of postnatal stay by mode of birth and hospital type, and examine concurrent maternal readmission rates and reasons for readmission. METHODS Linked birth and hospital separation data were used to investigated mothers' birth admissions (n=597,475) and readmissions (n=19,094) in the six weeks post-birth in New South Wales, 2001-2007. Outcomes ...

Readmission of diabetic patients after discharge from hospital has potential value as a quality of care indicator. This retrospective cohort and case-control study aimed to determine the readmission rate for diabetic patients within 28 days after discharge and the association between quality of inpatient care and unplanned readmission. An audit of records was conducted in a hospital in the East...

Summarizing the results of research related to identifying potential predictors of hospital readmissions has been difficult because of conflicting results across studies. Using the techniques of meta-analysis, the results from 44 studies were examined in the present study. Overall, the mean readmission rate was 27%, with significant differences based on patient diagnosis. Although diagnosis, ag...

Objective: The aim of this study was to study the rate of readmission and look into factors that may contribute to this. Methods: This is a retrospective descriptive study of all psychiatric patients who were discharged from University Malaya Medical Center (UMMC). Case notes of those discharged during the study period was retrieved and analyzed. Those fulfilling the inclusion criteria were rec...

OBJECTIVE to compare the views of general practitioners and hospital staff on the reasons for unplanned readmission of older people. METHODS we studied 124 patients aged 65 years or over who were readmitted within 28 days of discharge. We determined the views of hospital staff and the patient's general practitioner on the reasons for readmission and compared them using McNemar's test. RESUL...

Pan-Canadian data show relatively high rates of readmission and declining lengths of stay (LOS) among individuals hospitalized for mental illness. In this Analysis in Brief the relationship between hospital readmissions and LOS was examined for individuals aged 15 to 65 years who were diagnosed with schizophrenia in an initial episode of hospitalization. The investigation revealed that shorter ...

In a retrospective review by Hannan et al. (1) in this issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, 30-day readmission rates for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) patients were analyzed using both clinical and administrative datasets to determine overall readmission rates, planned or staged readmissions, and a determination of predictors for unstaged readmissions. The 30-day readmission ...

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), established by the Affordable Care Act, ties a hospital's payments to its readmission rates--with penalties for hospitals that exceed a national benchmark--to encourage hospitals to reduce avoidable readmissions. This new Commonwealth Fund analysis uses publicly reported 30-day hos­pital readmission rate data to examine whether safety-net hosp...

BACKGROUND Risks prediction models of 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions are multi-factorial. Severity of illness (SOI) and risk of mortality (ROM) categorized by All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRG) seem to predict hospital readmission but lack large sample validation. Effects of risk reduction interventions including providing post-discharge outpatient visits remain unce...

PURPOSE Readmission and mortality rates of patients with heart failure are good indicators of care quality. To determine whether hospital resources are associated with care quality for cardiac patients, we analyzed the effect of number of physicians and the combined effects of number of physicians and beds on 30-day readmission and 1-year mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used national coho...