All-Cause Readmissions by Payer and Age, 2008

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This Statistical Brief presents data from HCUP on all-cause readmissions by expected payer and age groups in 15 selected states in 2008. The 15 states are dispersed geographically and account for 42 percent of the total U.S. resident population. For this Statistical Brief, readmission rate is defined as the number of times patients had a readmission within a certain number of days after being discharged alive from an initial hospital stay divided by the total number of initial stays between January and November 2008. Each hospital stay can be a new initial stay. Thus, a patient is allowed to have more than one initial stay and also multiple readmissions within a time period. Readmission rates 7, 14, and 30 days post-discharge are presented by expected primary payer and age group. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level or better.