• J Am Med Dir Assoc · Oct 2018

    Readmission Patterns Over 90-Day Episodes of Care Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Discharged to Post-acute Care.

    • Addie Middleton, Yong-Fang Kuo, James E Graham, Amol Karmarkar, Yu-Li Lin, James S Goodwin, Allen Haas, and Kenneth J Ottenbacher.
    • Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; Division of Physical Therapy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Electronic address: middlja@musc.edu.
    • J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2018 Oct 1; 19 (10): 896-901.

    ObjectiveExamine readmission patterns over 90-day episodes of care in persons discharged from hospitals to post-acute settings.DesignRetrospective cohort study.SettingAcute care hospitals.ParticipantsMedicare fee-for-service enrollees (N = 686,877) discharged from hospitals to post-acute care in 2013-2014. The cohort included beneficiaries >65 years of age hospitalized for stroke, joint replacement, or hip fracture and who survived for 90 days following discharge.Measurements90-day unplanned readmissions.ResultsThe cohort included 127,680 individuals with stroke, 442,195 undergoing joint replacement, and 117,002 with hip fracture. Thirty-day readmission rates ranged from 3.1% for knee replacement patients discharged to home health agencies (HHAs) to 14.4% for hemorrhagic stroke patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Ninety-day readmission rates ranged from 5.0% for knee replacement patients discharged to HHAs to 26.1% for hemorrhagic stroke patients discharged to SNFs. Differences in readmission rates decreased between stroke subconditions (hemorrhagic and ischemic) and increased between joint replacement subconditions (knee, elective hip, and nonelective hip) from 30 to 90 days across all initial post-acute discharge settings.ConclusionsWe observed clear patterns in readmissions over 90-day episodes of care across post-acute discharge settings and subconditions. Our findings suggest that patients with hemorrhagic stroke may be more vulnerable than those with ischemic over the first 30 days after hospital discharge. For patients receiving nonelective joint replacements, readmission prevention efforts should start immediately after discharge and continue, or even increase, over the 90-day episode of care.Copyright © 2018 AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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