The rate at which adult cancer patients have an unplanned readmission within 30 days of discharge from an acute care hospital.

All eligible unplanned readmissions to any short-term acute care hospital within 30 days of the discharge date from an index admission that is included in the denominator.

Inpatient admissions where the patient is discharged from a short-term acute care hospital with a principal or secondary diagnosis (i.e., not admitting diagnosis) of malignant cancer within the defined measurement period.

Numerator: Readmissions for patients with progression of disease (using a principal diagnosis of metastatic disease as a proxy) and for patients with planned admissions for treatment (defined as a principal diagnosis of chemotherapy or radiation therapy) Denominator: 1) Less than 18 years of age; 2) Patients who died during the index admission; 3) Patients discharged AMA; 4) Patients transferred to another acute care hospital during the index admission; 5) Patients discharged with a planned readmission; 6) Patients having missing or incomplete data; and, 7) Patients not admitted to an inpatient bed.

Claims data.

Prospective Payment System-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting Program (CMS and Providers) CMS Provider Compare (Publicly reported) data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/jfnd-nl7s.

data.cms.gov/provider-data/topics/hospitals/pps-exempt-cancer-hospitals data.cms.gov/provider-data/topics/hospitals/measures-and-current-data-collection-periods

cmit.cms.gov/cmit/#/MeasureView?variantId=5039&sectionNumber=1
www.qualityforum.org/QPS/3188