Hospital-Level Variation in Postpartum Readmissions

Mark A Clapp; Sarah E Little; Jie Zheng; Anjali J Kaimal; Julian N Robinson

doi:10.1001/jama.2017.2830

Hospital-Level Variation in Postpartum Readmissions

JAMA. 2017 May 23;317(20):2128-2129. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.2830.

Authors

Mark A Clapp¹, Sarah E Little², Jie Zheng³, Anjali J Kaimal¹, Julian N Robinson²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study uses obstetric readmission rates from the 2013 National Readmission Database to describe hospital variance in postpartum readmissions and the percentage of variance attributed to hospital factors.

MeSH terms

Diagnosis-Related Groups
Female
Hospitals / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Linear Models
Parturition*
Patient Readmission / statistics & numerical data*
Postpartum Period*
United States