Hospital-level, 30-day risk-standardised readmission rate for patients discharged from the hospital with a principal discharge diagnosis of heart failure.

30-day, all-cause readmissions for patients discharged from the hospital with a principal discharge diagnosis of heart failure. This measure looks for a dichotomous yes or no outcome of whether each admitted patient has an unplanned readmission within 30 days.

Admissions for patients that meet all of the following inclusion criteria: 1. Discharged from the hospital with a principal discharge diagnosis of HF; 2. Enrolled in Medicare fee-for-service Part A and Part B for the 12 months prior to the date of admission and Part A during the index admission.

Index admissions for patients that meet any of the following exclusion criteria: 1. Without at least 30 days of post-discharge enrolment in Medicare fee-for-service; 2. With a procedure code for left ventricular assist device implantation or heart transplantation either during the index admission or in the 12 months prior to the index admission; 3. HF admissions within 30 days of discharge from a prior HF index admission; 4. Discharged against medical advice; 5. With a principal diagnosis/secondary diagnosis code of COVID-19 coded as present on admission on the index admission claim.

Hierarchical logistic regression is used to adjust for differences in hospital case mix (age and clinical status of the patient, accounted for by adjusting for comorbidities) and to account for the clustering of patients within a hospital. The measure calculates a risk-standardised ratio of the number of predicted readmissions to the number of expected readmissions. This ratio is multiplied by the national observed readmission rate to get the risk-standardised readmission rate (RSRR).

Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) claims data.

Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (CMS and Providers) CMS Care Compare - Hospitals and Provider Data Catalogue (Publicly reported).

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