Environment Scan Of Primary Care-Based Effort To Reduce Readmissions

This report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ)  was published in March 2019. Research from AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) indicates high rates of readmissions in the Medicare population and among the adult, non-obstetric Medicaid population. The primary goals of the report were to:

Analyze current processes in the primary care visit associated with hospital discharge.
Identify components of a re-engineered visit to reduce readmissions from the primary care perspective . . .