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PMID: 20945293 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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BACKGROUND: Readmissions are costly both financially for our healthcare system and emotionally for our patients. Identifying factors that increase risk for readmissions may be helpful to focus resources to optimize the discharge process and reduce avoidable readmissions. OBJECTIVE: To identify factors associated with readmission within 30 days for general medicine patients. METHODS: We performed a retrospective observational study of an administrative database at an urban 550-bed tertiary care academic medical center. Cohort patients were discharged from the general medicine service over a 2-year period from June 1, 2006, to May 31, 2008. Clinical, operational, and sociodemographic factors were evaluated for association with readmission. RESULTS: Our cohort included 10,359 consecutive admissions (6805 patients) discharged from the general medicine service. The 30-day readmission rate was 17.0%. In multivariate analysis, factors associated with readmission included black race (odds ratio [OR], 1.43; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.24-1.65), inpatient use of narcotics (1.33; 1.16-1.53) and corticosteroids (1.24; 1.09-1.42), and the disease states of cancer (with metastasis 1.61; 1.33-1.95; without metastasis 1.95; 1.54-2.47), renal failure (1.19; 1.05-1.36), congestive heart failure (1.30; 1.09-1.56), and weight loss (1.26; 1.09-1.47). Medicaid payer status (1.15; 0.97-1.36) had a trend toward readmission. CONCLUSION: Readmission of general medicine patients within 30 days is common and associated with several easily identifiable clinical and nonclinical factors. Identification of these risk factors can allow providers to target interventions to reduce potentially avoidable readmissions. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2010. © 2010 Society of Hospital Medicine. |
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Nazima Allaudeen; Arpana Vidyarthi; Judith Maselli; Andrew Auerbach |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-10-12 |
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Title: Journal of hospital medicine : an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine Volume: 6 ISSN: 1553-5606 ISO Abbreviation: J Hosp Med Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-02-03 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101271025 Medline TA: J Hosp Med Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 54-60 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2010 Society of Hospital Medicine. |
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Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System, Palo Alto, California; Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. nazima.allaudeen@va.gov. |
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