Why the study?
Are hospital readmission rates associated with mortality rates for patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia?
Are hospital readmission rates associated with mortality rates for patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia?
Hospital readmission rates are not a reliable proxy for mortality rates in patients with acute myocardial infarction or pneumonia, and only weakly so for heart failure.
Readmission rates may not proxy mortality for AMI or pneumonia; challenges their validity as quality metrics and leaves open value in heart failure.
Risk-standardized mortality rates and readmission rates were not associated for patients admitted with an acute myocardial infarction or pneumonia and were only weakly associated, within a certain range, for patients admitted with heart failure.
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