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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Griffith, Kevin N
• Schwartzman, David A
• Pizer, Steven D
• Bor, Jacob
• Kolachalama, Vijaya B
• Jack, Brian
• Garrido, Melissa M

Titel

Local Supply Of Postdischarge Care Options Tied To Hospital Readmission Rates

Ist Teil von

• Health affairs (Millwood, Va.), 2022-07, Vol.41 (7), p.1036-16

Ort / Verlag

Chevy Chase: The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The extent to which patients' risk for readmission after a hospitalization is influenced by local availability of postdischarge care options is not currently known. We used national, hospital-level data to assess whether the supply of postdischarge care options in hospitals' catchment areas was associated with readmission rates for Medicare patients after hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia. Overall, readmission rates were negatively associated with per capita supply of primary care physicians (-0.16 percentage points per standard deviation) and licensed nursing home beds (-0.09 percentage points per standard deviation). In contrast, readmission rates were positively associated with per capita supply of nurse practitioners (0.09 percentage points per standard deviation). Our results suggest potential modifications to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program to account for local health system characteristics when assigning penalties to hospitals.