Did Hospital Readmissions Fall Because Per Capita Admission Rates Fell?

Overview

Journal Health Aff (Millwood)

Specialty Health Services

Date 2019 Nov 5

PMID 31682487

Citations 10

Authors

J Michael McWilliams

Michael L Barnett

Eric T Roberts

Pasha Hamed

Ateev Mehrotra

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Abstract

Recent reductions in hospital readmission rates have been attributed to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. However, admission rates also declined during the same period. We found that because the probability of an admission occurring soon after another is lower when there are fewer admissions per patient, the reduction in admission rates may explain much of the reduction in readmission rates.

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