TY - JOUR AU - Zheng, Sarah AU - Hanchate, Amresh AU - Shwartz, Michael PY - 2019 DA - 2019/03/12 TI - One-year costs of medical admissions with and without a 30-day readmission and enhanced risk adjustment JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 155 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - To overcome the limitations of administrative data in adequately adjusting for differences in patients’ risk of readmissions, recent studies have added supplemental data from patient surveys and other sources (e.g., electronic health records). However, judging the adequacy of enhanced risk adjustment for use in assessment of 30-day readmission as a hospital quality indicator is not straightforward. In this paper, we evaluate the adequacy of risk adjustment by comparing the one-year costs of those readmitted within 30 days to those not after excluding the costs of the readmission. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-3983-7 DO - 10.1186/s12913-019-3983-7 ID - Zheng2019 ER -