Why the study?
Are global hospital readmission rates a useful indicator of quality of health care?
Population
Patients with hospital readmissions
Design
Review
Key result
Global hospital readmission rates are not a useful indicator of quality of care, despite evidence that 9% to 48% of readmissions are preventable and 12% to 75% can be prevented by targeted care.
Authors
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Global readmission rates should not guide quality assessments; leaves open whether condition-specific metrics better reflect care.
Are global hospital readmission rates a useful indicator of quality of health care?
Global hospital readmission rates are not a reliable measure of overall healthcare quality due to confounding by unmodifiable patient factors, though condition-specific rates may identify quality issues.
Benbassat et al. (2000) conducted a review in Hospital readmissions. Global hospital readmission rates are not a useful indicator of quality of care, despite evidence that 9% to 48% of readmissions are preventable and 12% to 75% can be prevented by targeted care.