| Description | Hospital, thirty-day all-cause risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) hospitalization. The measure estimates a hospital-level, risk-standardized, all-cause 30 day readmission rate for patients discharged from the hospital with a principal discharge diagnosis of AMI. Readmission of patients who were recently discharged after hospitalization with AMI represents an important, expensive, and often preventable adverse outcome. The risk of readmission can be modified by the quality and type of care provided to these patients. Improving readmission rates is the joint responsibility of hospitals and clinicians. Measuring readmission will create incentives to invest in interventions to improve hospital care, better assess the readiness of patients for discharge, and facilitate transitions to outpatient status. This measure is also responsive to the call by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to develop readmission measures, with AMI highlighted as one of seven conditions that account for nearly 30% of potentially preventable readmissions in the 15-day window after initial hospital discharge (MedPAC, 2007). |
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