2014
Readmission Rates and Long-Term Hospital Costs Among Survivors of an In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Chan PS, Nallamothu BK, Krumholz HM, Curtis LH, Li Y, Hammill BG, Spertus JA. Readmission Rates and Long-Term Hospital Costs Among Survivors of an In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Circulation Cardiovascular Quality And Outcomes 2014, 7: 889-895. PMID: 25351479, PMCID: PMC4241155, DOI: 10.1161/circoutcomes.114.000925.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHospital cardiac arrestCardiac arrestInpatient costsMean inpatient costsLarge national registryInpatient resource useNeurological statusReadmission patternsHospital dispositionPatient demographicsReadmission ratesMean ageInpatient useNational registryYounger ageReadmissionArrestAgeYearsDaysPatientsRegistryResource useSurvivors
2013
Hospital readmission performance and patterns of readmission: retrospective cohort study of Medicare admissions
Dharmarajan K, Hsieh AF, Lin Z, Bueno H, Ross JS, Horwitz LI, Barreto-Filho JA, Kim N, Suter LG, Bernheim SM, Drye EE, Krumholz HM. Hospital readmission performance and patterns of readmission: retrospective cohort study of Medicare admissions. The BMJ 2013, 347: f6571. PMID: 24259033, PMCID: PMC3898430, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f6571.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionRetrospective cohort studyReadmission diagnosesReadmission ratesHeart failureMyocardial infarctionCohort studySpecific diagnosisReadmission performanceHospital readmission performancePatterns of readmissionDay readmission rateRisk-standardized readmission ratesLow performing hospitalsHospital performanceHigh performing hospitalsReadmission timingDay readmissionHospital stayIndex admissionHospital dischargeReadmission patternsHospital admissionCommon diagnosisMedian time