UMBC’s Hilltop Institute & UMB SOM’s Department Of Emergency Medicine To Develop Algorithm To Augment 30-Day All-Cause Readmission Measure

The Hilltop Institute at UMBC, in partnership with the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s (UMB SOM’s) Department of Emergency Medicine, received funding to develop and test a measure of hospital quality that assesses hospitals based on the frequency of downstream clinically relevant readmissions (DCRR) as opposed to blanket 30-day all-cause readmissions. The 30-day all-cause readmission measure has been a key hospital quality metric for years.

Both the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) measure and report on readmissions as a key assessment of hospital . . .