Screening for risk of rehospitalization from home care: Use of the outcomes assessment information set and the probability of readmission instrument

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 118-127

  Bowles, Kathryn H ^a   Cater, Jacqueline R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Biomedical Statistical Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Home health care; Hospital readmission; OASIS; Pra

Indexed keywords

AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEW ENGLAND; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038690467     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.10071     Document Type: Article

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