30-day hospital readmission rates vary after inpatient rehabNearly 12% of Medicare patients who receive inpatient rehabilitation following discharge from acute-care hospitalization are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after discharge from the rehabilitation facility, acc...
This is not captured if a patient was discharged alive but died at home or at a rehab facility. Second, NIS, being an administrative database, relies on ICD-10 codes, which is inferior to manual chart review. There is a lack of information on imaging studies, laboratory investigations, ...