Development of an automated, real time surveillance tool for predicting readmissions at a community hospital.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Readmissions Reduction Program adjusts payments to hospitals based on 30-day readmission rates for patients with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia. This holds hospitals accountable for a complex phenomenon about which there is little evidence regarding effective interventions. Further study may benefit from a method for efficiently and inexpensively identifying patients at risk of readmission. Several models have been developed to assess [...]
Author(s): Gildersleeve, R, Cooper, P
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-12-RA-0058