Quality of hospital, nursing home impacts readmissions

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | Quality

Patients discharged from higher-quality hospitals or who received care in higher-quality nursing homes are less likely to be readmitted to a hospital within 30 days, according to a study published in AMJC Managed Markets Network.

 

Researchers conducted a cohort study of 1,382,477 individual hospitalizations discharged to 15,356 nursing homes from 3,683 hospitals between 2006 and 2008. Data studied included Medicare claims and enrollment records, Minimum Data Set, Online Survey Certification and Reporting Dataset, Hospital Compare and the American Hospital Association Database. 

 

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Influence of Hospital and Nursing Home Quality on Hospital Readmissions

Laura Pedulli

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