Physician characteristics correlate with hospital readmission rates.

Medicine
Michael SkolkaEileen Hennrikus

Abstract

Hospital readmission rates are used as a metric to measure quality patient care. While several tools predict readmissions based on patient-specific characteristics, this study assesses if physician characteristics correlate with hospital readmission rates.In a 5-year retrospective electronic record review at a single institution, 31 internal medicine attending physicians' discharges were tracked for a total of 70 physician years, and 15,933 hospital discharges. Each physician's yearly 7-day, 8 to 30-day, and 30-day readmission rates were compared. Each rate was also correlated with years of post-graduate clinical experience, discharge volume, physician sex, and fiscal year.Individual physicians had significantly different 7-day, 8 to 30-day, and 30-day readmission rates from each other. The rates were not related to sex, years after post-graduate training, or fiscal year. However, physician patient volume correlated with 7-day readmission rates. Physicians who discharged ≤100 patients per year had a higher 7-day readmission rate than physicians who discharged >100 patients per year. This correlation with patient volume did not hold for the 8 to 30-day and 30-day readmission rates.Individual physicians differ in their patient re...Continue Reading

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