What Are They Worth? Six 30-Day Readmission Risk Scores for Medical Inpatients Externally Validated in a Swiss Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several clinical risk scores for unplanned 30-day readmission have been published, but there is a lack of external validation and head-to-head comparison.

Objective

Retrospective replication of six clinical risk scores (LACE, HOSPITAL, SEMI, RRS, PARA, Tsui et al.)f DESIGN: Models were fitted with the original intercept and beta coefficients as reported. Otherwise, a logistic model was refitted (SEMI and Tsui et al). We performed subgroup analyses on main admission specialty. This report adheres to the TRIPOD statement for reporting of prediction models.

Participants

We used our prospective cohort of 15,639 medical patients from a Swiss tertiary care institution from 2016 through 2018.

Main measures

Thirty-day readmission rate and area under the curv

SUBMITTER: Struja T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7351934 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature