Can risk scores accurately predict 7-day, 30-day, and 60-day all-cause unplanned readmission?
Shorter-term readmissions may require different screening tools and interventions compared to 30-day readmissions due to potentially different causal pathways.
This study demonstrates similar predictors and performance to previous risk scores of 30-day unplanned readmission. Shorter-term readmissions may have different causal pathways than 30-day readmission, and may, therefore, require different screening tools and interventions. This study also re-iterates the need to include more informative data elements to ensure the appropriateness of these risk scores in clinical practice.
Maali et al. (2018) studied this question.