Emergency Readmissions Within 30 Days of Discharge From Hospital
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of emergency admissions to any hospital in England occurring within 30 days of the most recent discharge from hospital.
Numerator
The number of finished and unfinished Continuous Inpatient spells intersecting the respective financial year, plus those up to 30 days into the next financial year that are emergency admissions within 0- 29 days (inclusive) of the last, previous discharge from hospital
Denominator
The number of finished Continuous Inpatient spells within selected medical and surgical specialties with a discharge date up to 31st March in the financial year of analysis.
Exclusions
Mental health services, Obstetrics, or where there is a diagnosis of cancer or chemotherapy for cancer during the stay in hospital or within the last year.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Indirectly age, sex, method of admission and diagnosis/procedure standardised
Stratifications
Country, Regions, ONS Area Classification, Provider, Deprivation, Local Authorities, Independent Sector Health Care, Providers, Sub-Integrated Care Boards, Integrated Care Boards
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Hospital episode statistics and Office for National Statistics mid year population data
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Statistical reports on health services include a quality report and descriptions of the special features of the statistics.