This study examines the association between the quality of hospital discharge planning and
all-cause 30-day readmissions and same-hospital readmissions. The sample included …

Background A reduction in hospital readmissions may improve quality and reduce costs.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has initiated a national effort to measure …

Background Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions have focused primarily on improving
transitional care. Yet variation in readmission rates may more closely reflect variation in the …

Background: Under the Affordable Care Act, the Congress has mandated that the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services reduce payments to hospitals subject to their Inpatient …

OBJECTIVE Hospital discharge summaries can provide valuable information to future
providers and may help to prevent hospital readmissions. We sought to examine whether …

Background: Readmissions are an attractive quality measure because they offer a broad
view of quality beyond the index hospitalization. However, the extent to which medical or …

Importance Because effective interventions to reduce hospital readmissions are often
expensive to implement, a score to predict potentially avoidable readmissions may help …

Abstract Background As of October 1, 2012, hospitals in the United States with excess
readmissions based on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) risk …

Objective To identify the optimal timing of in‐person physician visit after hospital discharge
to yield the largest reduction in readmission among elderly or chronically ill patients. Data …

Since the implementation of Value-Based Purchasing, hospital readmissions now effect
Medicare reimbursement. This creation of a financial incentive, along with the inherent …