Readmission rates at Pennsylvania hospitals decreased for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure, but increased for chest pain from 2007 to 2011, according to data from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
PHC4 released its latest "Hospital Performance Report," which includes in-hospital mortality rates and readmission rates from 157 hospitals across the state from 2007 to 2011. Data showed that COPD readmission rates decreased from 23.5 percent to 22.1 percent and congestive heart failure readmission rates decreased from 26.9 percent to 25.6 percent, while chest pain readmission rates increased from 10.9 percent to 12.9 percent from 2007 to 2011.
Other key data points include the following:
• Among the 12 conditions included in the report, four showed significant decreases in in-hospital mortality rates, with no significant changes for the other eight conditions.
• The biggest drop in in-hospital mortality rates occurred for pneumonia-aspiration (10 percent to 7.7 percent) from 2007 to 2011.
• From 2007 to 2011, in-hospital mortality rates for colorectal procedures decreased 3.2 percent to 2.6 percent, the rates for kidney and urinary tract infections decreased from 1 percent to 0.6 percent and the rates for COPD decreased from 1 percent to 0.8 percent from 2007 to 2011.
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PHC4 released its latest "Hospital Performance Report," which includes in-hospital mortality rates and readmission rates from 157 hospitals across the state from 2007 to 2011. Data showed that COPD readmission rates decreased from 23.5 percent to 22.1 percent and congestive heart failure readmission rates decreased from 26.9 percent to 25.6 percent, while chest pain readmission rates increased from 10.9 percent to 12.9 percent from 2007 to 2011.
Other key data points include the following:
• Among the 12 conditions included in the report, four showed significant decreases in in-hospital mortality rates, with no significant changes for the other eight conditions.
• The biggest drop in in-hospital mortality rates occurred for pneumonia-aspiration (10 percent to 7.7 percent) from 2007 to 2011.
• From 2007 to 2011, in-hospital mortality rates for colorectal procedures decreased 3.2 percent to 2.6 percent, the rates for kidney and urinary tract infections decreased from 1 percent to 0.6 percent and the rates for COPD decreased from 1 percent to 0.8 percent from 2007 to 2011.
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