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)

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 (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)

Number of patients who were re-admitted to a hospital for urgent and emergent care within 1 year of discharge

Denominator (short description i.e. not inclusions/exclusions)

Total number of patients discharged from a hospital

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)