Potentially avoidable readmissions make up 10 percent to 14 percent of all admissions for most hospitals, or roughly 45 percent of them, according to an infographic from Objective Health. Here are seven more statistics on the associated costs of avoidable hospital readmissions.
1. Based on 220 hospitals in 2011, the average avoidable readmission rate in the United States was 12.6 percent.
2. Potentially avoidable readmissions equated to $9.5 million in annual at-risk profit for an average 300-based hospital in 2011.
3. The most common conditions for avoidable readmissions are:
• congestive heart failure (30 percent)
• bacterial pneumonia (24 percent)
• COPD or asthma in older adults (13 percent)
• urinary tract infection (10 percent) and
• diabetes with short-term complications (9 percent).
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