Roughly one in six patients who received a percutaneous coronary intervention were readmitted to the hospital within one month of their procedure, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Researchers based the study on 40,093 New York State patients who received PCI, which can include stent implantation, between Jan. 1, 2007 through Nov. 30, 2007.
Of this group, 15.6 percent were readmitted within 30 days and 20.6 percent of those readmissions were planned. The most common reasons for unstaged readmissions were chronic ischemic heart disease (22.5 percent), chest pain (10.8 percent) and heart failure (8.2 percent). A total of 2,015 patients, or 32.2 percent of readmissions, received a repeat PCI.
Study authors say future efforts to reduce hospital readmissions should be directed toward patients recognized as "most at risk." They also suggest staged, or planned, readmissions be examined from a cost-effective basis.
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Researchers based the study on 40,093 New York State patients who received PCI, which can include stent implantation, between Jan. 1, 2007 through Nov. 30, 2007.
Of this group, 15.6 percent were readmitted within 30 days and 20.6 percent of those readmissions were planned. The most common reasons for unstaged readmissions were chronic ischemic heart disease (22.5 percent), chest pain (10.8 percent) and heart failure (8.2 percent). A total of 2,015 patients, or 32.2 percent of readmissions, received a repeat PCI.
Study authors say future efforts to reduce hospital readmissions should be directed toward patients recognized as "most at risk." They also suggest staged, or planned, readmissions be examined from a cost-effective basis.
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