Journal of hospital medicine : an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine
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Predicting all-cause readmissions using electronic health record data from the entire hospitalization: Model development and comparison.
Incorporating clinical information from the full hospital course may improve prediction of 30-day readmissions. ⋯ Incorporating clinically granular EHR data from the full hospital stay modestly improves prediction of 30-day readmissions. Given limited improvement in prediction despite incorporation of data on hospital complications, clinical instabilities, and trajectory, our findings suggest that many factors influencing readmissions remain unaccounted for. Further improvements in readmission models will likely require accounting for psychosocial and behavioral factors not currently captured by EHRs. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2016;11:473-480. © 2016 Society of Hospital Medicine.