Elizabeth E. Drye

TL;DR: Among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries hospitalized for HF, acute MI, or pneumonia, 30-day readmissions were frequent throughout the month after hospitalization and resulted from a similar spectrum of readmission diagnoses regardless of age, sex, race, or time after discharge.

TL;DR: For patients admitted with HF during the past 14 years, reductions in length of stay and in-hospital mortality, less marked reductions in 30-day mortality, and changes in discharge disposition accompanied by increases in30-day readmission rates were observed.

TL;DR: In a recent 3-year period, 30-day risk-standardized mortality rates for AMI and HF varied among hospitals and across the country, and the readmission rates were particularly high.

TL;DR: This claims-based model of hospital risk-standardized readmission rates for heart failure patients produces estimates that may serve as surrogates for those derived from a medical record model.

TL;DR: Although there was a significant negative linear relationship between RSMRs and RSRRs for heart failure, the shared variance between them was only 2.9% and the results were similar for subgroups defined by hospital characteristics.