TY  - JOUR
T1  - MAintaining planned readmissions
AU  - Katz MH
Y1  - 2012/02/13
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.607
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 270
EP  - 270
VL  - 172
IS  - 3
N2  - 
Paying more for favorable outcomes and less for avoidable complications is a promising approach for improving the American health care system. In this regard, avoidable hospital readmissions have received a lot of attention. Several studies have shown that good care coordination between the inpatient and outpatient settings can reduce avoidable readmissions. However, as explained by Berkowitz and Anderson, there are problems with this indicator; in particular, some readmissions are planned (eg, staged procedures, chemotherapy cycles). We thought their suggestion that hospitals be allowed to prespecify patients who would be needed to be readmitted (along with reason and date) was a practical solution.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.607
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.607
ER  -