Hospital Readmissions among Commercially Insured and Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries with Diabetes and the Impact of Severe Hypoglycemic and Hyperglycemic Events

• Published in: Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM Vol. 32; no. 10; pp. 1097 - 1105
• Main Authors: McCoy, Rozalina G., Lipska, Kasia J., Herrin, Jeph, Jeffery, Molly M., Krumholz, Harlan M., Shah, Nilay D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.10.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Age; Aged; Complications; Data processing; Data warehouses; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetes Mellitus - diagnosis; Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology; Diabetes Mellitus - therapy; Female; Government programs; Health care; Heart diseases; Heart rate; Hospitalization; Humans; Hyperglycemia; Hyperglycemia - diagnosis; Hyperglycemia - epidemiology; Hyperglycemia - therapy; Hypoglycemia; Hypoglycemia - diagnosis; Hypoglycemia - epidemiology; Hypoglycemia - therapy; Insurance, Health - trends; Internal Medicine; Male; Medicare; Medicare Part C - trends; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Original Research; Patient admissions; Patient Readmission - trends; Patients; Retrospective Studies; Risk analysis; Risk factors; Risk management; Severity of Illness Index; United States - epidemiology; epidemiology; hyperglycemia; health services research; risk assessment; hypoglycemia; hospital medicine; readmissions; diabetes

Background Hospital readmission is common among patients with diabetes. Some readmissions, particularly for hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, may be avoidable with better care transitions and post-discharge management. Objective To ascertain the most common reasons and risk factors for readmission amo...