Percentage-hospital-readmissions-within-one-year

INDICATOR NAME

Name

Percentage of hospital readmissions within 1 year

Alternate Name

Percentage of hospital readmissions within 1 year

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

Percentage of patients who were re-admitted to a hospital for urgent and emergent care within 1 year of discharge (adjusted and unadjusted percentages)

Indicator Status

Active

HQO Reporting tool/product

Personalized/Custom Reports (includes Practice Reports)

Dimension

Effective

Type

Process

DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION

Unit of Measurement

Percentage

Calculation Methods

Numerator/ Denominator * 100

Numerator including inclusion/exclusion

Number of patients who were re-admitted to a hospital for urgent and emergent care within 1 year of discharge Note: Hospital readmissions is readmission to any acute care hospital in the province for any condition, including a different condition than the reason for their original hospital admission1

Denominator including inclusion/exclusion

Total number of patients discharged from a hospital

Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- detailed

This indicator has been risk adjusted for age, sex and co-morbidities. Risk adjustment takes into account the differences among patient populations to allow for fairer comparisons between your patients and other populations. Unadjusted data is also provided to inform your quality improvement efforts.

Data Source

Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)

Data provided to HQO by

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Caveats and Limitations

Data from the DAD only pertains to patients who are readmitted to the same institution. Those who are discharged and subsequently admitted to other institutions will not be captured by this field (Health Analyst’s Toolkit, 2012)

Footnotes

1 Goldfield, N. (2011). How important is it to identify avoidable hospital readmissions with certainty? CMAJ, 19;183(7):E368-9. Epub 2011 Mar 28.