Models to predict readmission rates – trying to sand the wings of the boomerang

Thomas Münzer

doi:10.4414/smw.2017.14493

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Vol. 147 No. 3738 (2017)

Models to predict readmission rates – trying to sand the wings of the boomerang

Thomas Münzer

Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2017;147:w14493
Published: 12.09.2017

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Uhlmann M, Lécreux E, Griesser A-C, Hong D, Lamy O. Prediction of potentially avoidable readmission risk in a division of general internal medicine. Swiss Med Wkly. 2017;147:w14470. https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2017.14470
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[1] Eggli Y. SQLape® Indikator der potentiell vermeidbaren Rehospitalisationen Nationaler Verein für Qualitaetsentwicklung in Spitaelern und Kliniken (ANQ)2014 [Available from: http://www.hplusqualite.ch/fileadmin/documents/anq/16/20161116_ANQ_Rapport_2015_BFS_2014_Readmissions_V_1.0_de.pdf.

[2] Uhlmann M, Lécreux E, Griesser A-C, Hong D, Lamy O. Prediction of potentially avoidable readmission risk in a division of general internal medicine. Swiss Med Wkly. 2017;147:w14470. https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2017.14470

[3] Desai NR, Ross JS, Kwon JY, Herrin J, Dharmarajan K, Bernheim SM, et al. Association between hospital penalty status under the hospital readmission reduction program and readmission rates for target and nontarget conditions. JAMA. 2016;316(24):2647–56. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2016.18533

[4] Lu N, Huang KC, Johnson JA. Reducing excess readmissions: promising effect of hospital readmissions reduction program in US hospitals. Int J Qual Health Care. 2016;28(1):53–8. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzv090