risk-standardized readmission rates for patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction and heart failure. …

PPS as proxied by the case-specific readmission rate. …

Hospital readmission has become a critical metric of quality and cost of healthcare. Medicare anticipates that nearly … prediction models fail to reach an acceptable accuracy level; none of them considers patient’s history of readmission and impacts …. Tackling such drawbacks, we develop a new readmission metric based on administrative data that can identify potentially …

length of stay in hospital decreased, while readmission rates increased. Probit and instrumental variable regression models … probability of readmission. A patient’s age, comorbidities, and complexity of the treatment procedure are positively associated … with readmissions, while higher number of diagnostic procedures negatively affects hospital readmission. Finally, patients …

quality, as measured by in-hospital mortality and 28-day emergency readmission. To do this, we exploit the phased introduction … at different times. We estimate regression models to analyse factors associated with patient survival and readmission for …. We find that the probability of survival improved over time while changes in crude readmission rates varied by condition …

ownership differences regarding upcoding. Not–for–profit hospitals have the highest readmission index. Last, not–for–profit and …