Preventability of Early Versus Late Hospital Readmissions

Kelly L. Graham; Andrew D. Auerbach; Shoshana J. Herzig

doi:10.7326/L18-0611

Letters |5 February 2019

Preventability of Early Versus Late Hospital Readmissions

Kelly L. Graham, MD, MPH; Andrew D. Auerbach, MD, MPH; Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH

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We direct Dr. Edwards to the sensitivity analysis presented in Table 1 of our article, which uses a more stringent definition of preventability. This analysis resulted in a 16% incidence of preventability and produced a similar difference in preventability between early and late readmissions of 22.6% and 12.5%, respectively.

Dr. Inagaki and colleagues, Dr. Mine and associates, and Drs. Takata and Katoka raised concerns about confounding by factors not included in our analysis. We chose not to include race, functional status, or other inherent patient characteristics because such factors are not taken into consideration when determining readmission penalties,...

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