Greg D Sacks, Aaron J Dawes, Marcia M Russell, Anne Y Lin, Melinda Maggard-Gibbons, Deborah Winograd, Hallie R Chung, James Tomlinson, Areti Tillou, Stephen B Shew, Darryl T Hiyama, H Gill Cryer, F Charles Brunicardi, Jonathan R Hiatt, Clifford Ko
IMPORTANCE: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has developed an all-cause readmission measure that uses administrative data to measure readmission rates and financially penalize hospitals with higher-than-expected readmission rates. OBJECTIVES: To examine the accuracy of administrative codes in determining the cause of readmission as determined by medical record review, to evaluate the readmission measure's ability to accurately identify a readmission as planned, and to document the frequency of readmissions for reasons clinically unrelated to the original hospital stay...
August 2014: JAMA Surgery