Our team at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale-New Haven Hospital developed readmission measures for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with the goal of illuminating hospital performance and stimulating efforts to improve patient care. We believed that such efforts could improve patient recovery and reduce the occurrence of adverse health events after discharge. We developed these measures using data from administrative claims and validated them against measures using medical records data (1). National readmission rates within 30 days of hospital discharge were exceedingly high for common diagnoses, such as acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and ...
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Author, Article and Disclosure Information
From Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, New Haven, Connecticut.
Grant Support: Dr. Krumholz is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Center for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research at Yale University (grant U01 HL105270-05).
Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M14-2308.
Corresponding Author: Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, Yale University School of Medicine, 1 Church Street, Suite 200, New Haven, CT 06510; e-mail, harlan.
Current Author Addresses: Drs. Krumholz and Bernheim: Yale University School of Medicine, 1 Church Street, Suite 200, New Haven, CT 06510.
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