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AHRQ: Ten conditions with the most all-cause, 30-day readmissions for Medicare patients in 2011
Submitted By Charlene Ice, Created 04/21/2014 - 10:48
- Congestive heart failure; nonhypertensive: 7.3%
- Septicemia (except in labor): 5.1%
- Pneumonia (except that caused by tuberculosis or sexually transmitted disease): 4.8%
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchiectasis: 4.2%
- Cardiac dysrhythmias: 3.8%
- Urinary tract infections: 3.1%
- Acute and unspecified renal failure: 2.9%
- Acute myocardial infarction: 2.8%
- Complication of device; implant or graft: 2.6%
- Acute cerebrovascular disease: 2.5%
Source: Source: "Conditions With the Largest Number of Adult Hospital Readmissions by Payer, 2011," Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Statistical Brief #172, April 2014
Source URL: http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb172-Conditi...
Notes: Percentage is of total Medicare readmissions in 2011.