Readmission Reduction as a Hospital Quality Measure The authors of this Viewpoint argue that the focus on hospital readmission rates as a measure of quality during the past decade, although undoubtedly leading to some improvements in care, has had minimal demonstrable benefit and has even distracted clinicians and health system leaders from other
The HOSPITAL Score and Hospital Readmissions - JAMA Network This cohort study tests the HOSPITAL score—a tool to identify likelihood of hospital readmission based on 7 readily available predictors—on 117 065 adults across 4 countries and identifies patients at high risk of 30-day potentially avoidable readmission
A Decade Later, Lessons Learned From the Hospital Readmission . . . The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) was established as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010 in response to reports that readmissions were common, costly, and potentially preventable 1 The policy established financial penalties for hospitals with