NEW SERIES ALERT ! The Healthcare Analytics Series is a series I will be doing on common healthcare analytic metrics within the health informatics field. On this episode, I will be talking all about readmission rates, what are they, how are they calculated and what are the factors which contribute to these rates?
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Resources:
Canadian Institute for Health Information: https://yourhealthsystem.cihi.ca/hsp/inbrief.#!/indicators/006/all-patients-readmitted-to-hospital/;mapC1;mapLevel2;provinceC5001;trend(C1,C5001);/
US financial penalties: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/AcuteInpatientPPS/Readmissions-Reduction-Program
Community nurse follow-up reduce readmissions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616175/
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Hospital Readmission Rates Part 1