23% Of Hospital Admissions For Psychosis Resulted In Readmission Within 30 Days

About 22.9% of hospital admissions with inpatient stays for schizophrenia or psychosis during 2014 resulted in a readmission within 30 days. About 39.3% of these readmissions occurred within 7 days.

These findings were reported in “Statistical Bulletin #230: A Comparison of All-Cause 7-Day and 30-Day Readmissions, 2014” by Kathryn R. Fingar, Ph.D., M.P.H., Marguerite L. Barrett, M.S., and H. Joanna Jiang, Ph.D., for the Healthcare Utilization and Cost Project (HCUP) of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The researchers calculated 2014 readmission rates based on the HCUP . . .