What proportion of hospital readmissions are preventable?

The latest estimate, from Donzé and colleagues, is that of 10,731 eligible discharges for adults from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, 22.3% were followed by a readmission within 30 days. An estimated 8.5% of discharges were found to be potentially avoidable. Thus, according to this work, about 38% of readmissions are avoidable.

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Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @afrakt. His day job is Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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