All-Cause Hospital Readmissions Within 30 Days
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Indirectly standardised ratio of all-cause hospital readmissions within 30 days.
Numerator
Observed unplanned readmissions to acute care hospitals within 30 days following discharge from the hospital for an index admission.
Denominator
Expected (risk-adjusted) readmissions to acute care hospitals within 30 days following discharge from the hospital for an index admission.
Exclusions
Index admissions exclude patients dying during a stay; patients discharged against medical advice; patients with medical treatment of cancer; patients treated for psychiatric disease; patients treated for rehabilitation care, fitting of prostheses and adjustment devices; patients discharged to another acute hospital; and patients without 30 days of post-discharge data.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Claims Data
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Not on CMS Care Compare