Identifying keys to success in reducing readmissions using the ideal transitions in care framework

Burke, Robert E; Guo, Ruixin; Prochazka, Allan V; Misky, Gregory J

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-14-423

BMC Health Services Research

Table 1 Details of studies included in the analysis

From: Identifying keys to success in reducing readmissions using the ideal transitions in care framework

Study	Total # domains	Disease specific	Readmissions	Duration (days)	Size
Randomized Controlled Studies
Balaban 2008 [6]	7	All	NS	31	96
Braun 2009 [7]	1	All	NS	30	309
Coleman 2006 [8]	8	All	All-cause	30	750
Dudas 2001 [9]	2	All	NS	30	221
Dunn 1994 [10]	1	All	NS	180	59
Evans 1993 [11]	4	All	All-cause	30	835
Forster 2005 [12]	3	All	NS	30	620
Jaarsma 1999 [13]	3	CHF	NS	30	179
Jack 2009 [14]	8	All	All-cause*	30	738
Koehler 2009 [15]	5	All	All-cause	30	41
Kwok 2004 [16]	4	COPD	NS	28	149
McDonald 2001 [17]	5	CHF	NS	30	70
Naylor 1994 [18]	7	All	All-cause	42	142
Rainville 1999 [19]	3	CHF	Disease-specific	30	34
Wong 2008 [20]	1	All	NS	30	332
Atienza 2004 [21]	5	CHF	All-cause	365	338
Blue 2001 [22]	5	CHF	All-cause	365	165
Bourbeau 2003 [23]	2	COPD	All-cause	365	191
Chaudry 2010 [24]	2	CHF	NS	180	1653
Cline 1998 [25]	4	CHF	NS	365	190
DeBusk 2004 [26]	3	CHF	NS	365	462
Doughty 2002 [27]	4	CHF	All-cause	365	197
Ekman 1998 [28]	4	CHF	NS	180	158
Gillespie 2009 [29]	4	All	NS	365	368
Holland 2005 [30]	4	All	NS	180	872
Kasper 2002 [31]	5	CHF	All-cause	365	200
Kimmelstiel 2004 [32]	5	CHF	Disease-specific	90	200
Koelling 2005 [33]	1	CHF	Disease-specific	180	223
Laramee 2003 [34]	7	CHF	NS	90	287
Ledwidge 2003 [35]	4	CHF	Disease-specific	90	98
Mejhert 2004 [36]	4	CHF	NS	545	208
Murray 2007 [37]	2	CHF	NS	365	314
Nazareth 2001 [38]	5	All	NS	90	362
Peikes 2012 [39]	7	All	All-cause	365	2166
Rich 1995 [40]	6	CHF	All-cause	90	282
Riegel 2002 [41]	5	CHF	Disease-specific	180	358
Stewart 1999 [42]	5	CHF	All-cause	180	200
Stromberg 2003 [43]	4	CHF	All-cause	90	106
Takahashi 2012 [44]	2	All	NS	365	205
Tsuyuki 2004 [45]	3	CHF	NS	180	276
Weinberger 1996 [46]	4	All	NS	180	1396
Marusic [47]	1	All	NS	30	160
Cohort studies
Anderson 2005 [48]	3	CHF	Disease-specific	30	121
Bostrom 1996 [49]	1	All	NS	30	919
Gow 1999 [50]	3	All	NS	28	77
Harrison 2011 [51]	1	All	All-cause	30	30272
Einstadter 1996 [52]	4	All	NS	30	478
Lucas 1998 [53]	1	All	NS	30	285
McPhee 1983 [54]	1	All	NS	30	301
O’Dell 2005 [55]	2	CHF	NS	30	237
Sorknaes 2011 [56]	1	COPD	Disease-specific	28	100
Steeman 2006 [57]	3	All	NS	15	824
Walker 2009 [58]	4	All	NS	30	724
Ohuabunwa [59]	7	All	NS	30	104
Before-After Comparisons
Brown 1997 [60]	5	COPD	All-cause	28	726
Creason 2001 [61]	3	CHF	All-cause	30	293
Dai 2003 [62]	3	CNS	NS	30	283
Dedhia 2009 [63]	4	All	All-cause	30	75
Hess 2010 [64]	2	All	NS	3	362
Houghton 1996 [65]	1	All	NS	28	422
Kramer 2007 [66]	1	All	NS	30	283
Smith 1995 [67]	3	All	All-cause	10	N/A
Mudge 2010 [68]	6	CHF	NS	365	416
Amarasingham [69]	4	All	All-cause	30	1747
Garin [70]	1	CHF	NS	90	363
Graham [71]	1	All	All-cause	30	3295

Legend: Interventions, number of domains included, whether the patient population was disease-specific or not, whether readmissions were statistically significantly reduced (NS = not significant, disease-specific means readmissions were reduced in a specific disease population), duration, and study size are listed. *Composite endpoint of “hospital utilization”.

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