IQCE Policy Brief No. 10 by Yuxi WangInvestigating the geographic disparity in quality of care: the case of hospital readmission after acute myocardial infarction

15 October 2020

IQCE Policy Brief No. 10, October 2020: "Investigating the geographic disparity in quality of care: the case of hospital readmission after acute myocardial infarction" by Yuxi Wang

Key Findings

• The risk of readmission increases with age and being male, while hospitals with higher patient volume and capacity tend to have lower unplanned readmission.

• After risk-adjustments, there are differential effects of hospitalisation length-of-stay on the probability readmission across hospitals that are governed by different payment systems.

• There are substantial geographic variations in readmission rate across Local Health Authority and region, and the varia-tions are explained by differences in length-of-stay and surgical procedures used.

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