Hospital Readmissions as a Measure of Quality of Health Care

A Multidisciplinary Intervention to Prevent the Readmission of Elderly Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

1995 • 2,368 citations

Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in Health Care

1989 • 1,752 citations

Readmission After Hospitalization for Congestive Heart Failure Among Medicare Beneficiaries

1997 • 836 citations

Does Increased Access to Primary Care Reduce Hospital Readmissions?

1996 • 808 citations

Comprehensive Discharge Planning for the Hospitalized Elderly

1994 • 711 citations

Nurse Case Management To Improve Glycemic Control in Diabetic Patients in a Health Maintenance Organization

1998 • 562 citations

Effects of a Home-Based Intervention Among Patients With Congestive Heart Failure Discharged From Acute Hospital Care

1998 • 470 citations

Results of a Program to Reduce Admissions for Adult Asthma

1990 • 407 citations

The Association between the Quality of Inpatient Care and Early Readmission

1995 • 406 citations

The Association Between the Quality of Inpatient Care and Early Readmission

1997 • 365 citations

High-Cost Users of Medical Care

1980 • 346 citations

Relationship of Nutritional Status to Length of Stay, Hospital Costs, and Discharge Status of Patients Hospitalized in the Medicine Service

1997 • 318 citations

Inappropriate Use of Hospitals in a Randomized Trial of Health Insurance Plans

1986 • 291 citations

Hospital Readmission Rates for Cohorts of Medicare Beneficiaries in Boston and New Haven

1994 • 270 citations

Elective total hip replacement: incidence, emergency readmission rate, and postoperative mortality.

1991 • 213 citations

The Methodologic Foundations of Studies of the Appropriateness of Medical Care

1993 • 212 citations

Impact of a nurse-led home management training programme in children admitted to hospital with acute asthma: a randomised controlled study

1997 • 190 citations

Preventability of emergent hospital readmission

1991 • 159 citations

Evaluating Hospital Discharge Planning: A Randomized Clinical Trial

1993 • 154 citations

Predicting early nonelective hospital readmission in nutritionally compromised older adults

1997 • 130 citations

Classifying general medicine readmissions

1996 • 120 citations

Identification of factors associated with hospital readmission and development of a predictive model.

1992 • 115 citations

The relationship between asthma admission rates, routes of admission, and socioeconomic deprivation

1996 • 115 citations

Risk Factors for Early Hospital Readmission in a Select Population of Geriatric Rehabilitation Patients: The Significance of Nutritional Status

1992 • 114 citations

Predicting hospital readmissions in the Medicare population.

1985 • 111 citations

CAN READMISSIONS TO A GERIATRIC MEDICAL UNIT BE PREVENTED?

1983 • 111 citations

The impact of patient socioeconomic status and other social factors on readmission: a prospective study in four Massachusetts hospitals.

1994 • 105 citations

Measuring outcomes of hospital care using multiple risk-adjusted indexes.

1991 • 104 citations

Factors predicting readmission of older general medicine patients

1991 • 104 citations

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a High Support Hospital Discharge Team for Elderly People

1994 • 102 citations

A Case Manager Intervention to Reduce Readmissions

1994 • 97 citations

Inpatient Community‐Based Geriatric Assessment Reduces Subsequent Mortality

1993 • 94 citations

A Method of Developing and Weighting Explicit Process of Care Criteria for Quality Assessment

1994 • 83 citations

Assessing the preventability of emergency hospital admissions

1987 • 82 citations

Postdischarge geriatric assessment of hospitalized frail elderly patients

1996 • 80 citations

Four-year follow-up of the influence of psychological comorbidity on medical rehospitalization

1996 • 77 citations

Unscheduled readmissions for uncontrolled symptoms. A health care challenge for nurses.

1995 • 73 citations

Discharge Destination and Repeat Hospitalizations

1997 • 71 citations

Does risk-adjusted readmission rate provide valid information on hospital quality?

1996 • 69 citations

Predictors of Hospital Readmission

1991 • 63 citations

A Longitudinal Study of Biomedical and Psychosocial Predictors of Multiple Hospitalizations Among Young People with Insulin‐dependent Diabetes Mellitus

1995 • 62 citations

Nutrition support team management of enterally fed patients in a community hospital is cost-beneficial

1994 • 60 citations

The California Hospital Outcomes Project: Using Administrative Data to Compare Hospital Performance

1995 • 60 citations

Effect of a nurse case manager on postdischarge follow-up

1996 • 57 citations

The Effect of a Nurse-Managed CHF Clinic on Patient Readmission and Length of Stay

1996 • 53 citations

A Medication Discharge Planning Program

1993 • 53 citations

An Evaluation of Generic Screens for Poor Quality of Hospital Care on a General Medicine Service

1993 • 51 citations

Inpatient hospital utilization among veterans with traumatic spinal cord injury

1996 • 45 citations

A model of regular geriatric follow-up by home visits to selected patients discharged from a geriatric ward: A randomized controlled trial

1995 • 44 citations

Can Early Re-Admission Rates Accurately Detect Poor-Quality Hospitals?

1995 • 43 citations

Unplanned readmissions of elderly patients.

1996 • 42 citations

Audit of unexpected return visits to an accident and emergency department.

1992 • 42 citations

Characteristics of the Recurrently Hospitalized Adult

1988 • 40 citations

Predicting Elderly Cardiac Patients at Risk for Readmission

1992 • 38 citations

The Impact of an Ambulatory Firm System on Quality and Continuity of Care

1995 • 36 citations

Validation of a 28 day interval between discharge and readmission for emergency readmission rates.

1995 • 35 citations

Factors related to rehospitalization within thirty days of discharge after coronary artery bypass grafting.

1996 • 33 citations

Risk factors associated with multiple hospital readmissions

1996 • 31 citations

Selecting Disease-Outcome Pairs for Monitoring the Quality of Hospital Care

1995 • 27 citations

Interventions to Prevent Readmission

1989 • 26 citations

Why people are hospitalized. A description of preventable factors leading to admission for medical illness.

1980 • 26 citations

Predicting Readmission in Veterans With Chronic Disease

1987 • 25 citations

Readmission rates, 30 days and 365 days postdischarge, among the 20 most frequent DRG groups, Medicare inpatients age 65 or older in Connecticut hospitals, fiscal years 1991, 1992, and 1993.

1995 • 23 citations

Readmission Study Leads to Continuum of Care

1995 • 21 citations

Emergency hospital admissions and readmissions of patients aged over 75 years and the effects of a community-based discharge scheme.

1992 • 20 citations

Should Emergency Readmissions be used as Health Service Indicators and in Medical Audit?

1993 • 20 citations

The need for special interventions for multiple hospital admission patients.

1988 • 20 citations

Application of an Analytic Model to Early Readmission Rates Within the Department of Veterans Affairs

1997 • 20 citations

Are PRO discharge screens associated with postdischarge adverse outcomes?

1995 • 19 citations

The systematic assessment of variations in medical practices and their outcomes.

1995 • 18 citations

A methodology for measuring clinical outcomes in an acute care teaching hospital.

1996 • 17 citations

A study of unplanned readmissions to a coronary care unit

1997 • 15 citations

Evaluation of a Hospital-Based Utilization Management Program

1995 • 15 citations

Readmissions to a geriatric medical unit: Is prevention possible?

1992 • 14 citations

U.S. initiatives and approaches for outcomes and effectiveness research

1991 • 14 citations

Need to measure outcome after discharge in surgical audit.

1992 • 12 citations

Re-admission of elderly patients after in-patient rehabilitation.

1996 • 11 citations

Characteristics of multiple admissions.

1991 • 8 citations

[Are early unforseen rehospitalizations inevitable?].

1996 • 7 citations

TQI: blending the old with the new.

1995 • 2 citations

Impact on Health Care Consumption of an Experimental Daycare Intervention

1994 • 2 citations