Same-hospital readmission rates as a measure of pediatric quality of care

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 169, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 905-912

  Khan, Alisa ^a,b   Nakamura, Mari M ^a,b   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^b   Jang, Jisun ^a   Berry, Jay G ^a,b   Feng, Jeremy Y ^b   Schuster, Mark A ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; EMERGENCY CARE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; URBAN AREA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEW YORK; PATIENT READMISSION; PEDIATRICS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84943425455     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: 21686211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.1129     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Axon RN, Williams MV. Hospital readmission as an accountability measure. JAMA. 2011;305(5):504-505.
2. Medicare.gov. Hospital readmissions reduction program. 2013. http://www.medicare.gov /hospitalcompare/readmission-reduction-program .html?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1. Accessed November 26, 2014.
3. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. CHIPRA measures by CHIPRA categories. 2013. http://archive.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra /pqmpmeasures.html. Accessed June 22, 2015.
4. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Readmissions reduction program. 2013. http: //www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for -Service-Payment/AcuteInpatientPPS /Readmissions-Reduction-Program.html. Accessed November 26, 2014.
5. Dougherty D, Schiff J, Mangione-Smith R. The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act quality measures initiatives: moving forward to improve measurement, care, and child and adolescent outcomes. Acad Pediatr. 2011;11(3)(suppl):S1-S10.
6. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medicaid Medical Directors Learning Network. http: //archive.ahrq.gov/policymakers/measurement /quality-by-state/mmdln.html. Accessed June 22, 2015.
7. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. State Medicaid policy changes increasingly driven by evidence. 2012. http://archive.ahrq.gov/news /newsletters/research-activities/aug12/0812RA1 .html. Accessed November 26, 2014.
8. Kuhmerker K, Hartman T. The Commonwealth Fund: pay-for-performance in state Medicaid programs: a survey of state Medicaid directors and programs. 2007. http://www.commonwealthfund .org/usr-doc/Kuhmerker-P4PstateMedicaidprogs-1018.pdf?section=4039. Accessed June 22, 2015.
9. Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services. State fiscal year (SFY) 2014 potentially preventable readmissions (PRR) reports. 2013. http://www.hfs.illinois.gov/html/100413n1.html. Accessed November 26, 2014.
10. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), Office of Medicaid. MassHealth: payment for acute hospital services effective October 1, 2013. http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/masshealth/acutehosp/notice-of-proposed-agency-action-acute-hospital-effec-10-1-13.pdf. Accessed November 26, 2014.
11. Berry JG, Toomey SL, Zaslavsky AM, et al. Pediatric readmission prevalence and variability across hospitals. JAMA. 2013;309(4):372-380.
12. National Quality Forum. Pediatric all-condition readmission measure. http://www.qualityforum.org /QPS/QPSTool.aspx?m=2393&e=1. Accessed March 4, 2015.
13. Ashton CM, Wray NP. A conceptual framework for the study of early readmission as an indicator of quality of care. Soc Sci Med. 1996;43(11):1533-1541.
14. Nasir K, Lin Z, Bueno H, et al. Is same-hospital readmission rate a good surrogate for all-hospital readmission rate? Med Care. 2010;48(5):477-481.
15. Kind AJH, Bartels C, Mell MW, Mullahy J, Smith M. For-profit hospital status and rehospitalizations at different hospitals: an analysis of Medicare data. Ann Intern Med. 2010;153(11):718-727.
16. Young WW, Joyce DZ, Emes J, Lucking J, Schwarzbach R. Readmissions: are they an indicator of quality of care? http://www.ichsr.com /publications/pdf/Readmissions.pdf. Accessed November 26, 2014.
17. Gonzalez AA, Shih T, Dimick JB, Ghaferi AA. Using same-hospital readmission rates to estimate all-hospital readmission rates. J Am Coll Surg. 2014; 219(4):656-663.
18. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project: supplemental files for revisit analyses. 2013. http: //www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/revisit /revisit.jsp. Accessed November 26, 2014.
19. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project: overview of the State Inpatient Databases (SID). 2014. https: //www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/sidoverview.jsp. Accessed April 3, 2015.
20. Eselius LL, Cleary PD, Zaslavsky AM, Huskamp HA, Busch SH. Case-mix adjustment of consumer reports about managed behavioral health care and health plans. Health Serv Res. 2008;43(6):2014-2032.
21. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Chronic condition indicator. http://www.hcup-us .ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/chronic/chronic.jsp. Accessed November 26, 2014.
22. WWAMI Rural Health Research Center. UW RHRC rural urban commuting area codes (RUCA). http://depts.washington.edu/uwruca/. Accessed November 26, 2014.
23. Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety. About us: our goals. http://www .solutionsforpatientsafety.org/about-us/our-goals/. Accessed November 26, 2014.
24. Campbell SE, Campbell MK, Grimshaw JM, Walker AE. A systematic review of discharge coding accuracy. J Public Health Med. 2001;23(3):205-211.
25. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project: central distributor SID: description of data elements. 2008. https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/siddistnote .jsp?var=race. Accessed April 3, 2015.