Psychiatric Comorbidity and 30-Day Readmissions After Hospitalization for Heart Failure, AMI, and Pneumonia

• DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201300518
• Publication Date: 2014-12-17T23:09:54Z
• Authors: Brian K. Ahmedani; Leif I. Solberg; Laurel A. Copeland; Ying Fang-Holling...; Christine Stewart; Jianhui Hu; David R. Nerenz; L. Keoki Williams; Andrea E. Cassidy...; Jeanette Waxmonsky; Christine Y. Lu; Beth E. Waitzfelder; Ashli A. Owen-Smith; Karen J. Coleman; Frances L. Lynch; Ameena T. Ahmed; Arne Beck; Rebecca C. Rossom; Gregory E. Simon
• Keywords: Depression

In 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented a policy that penalizes hospitals "excessive" all-cause hospital readmissions within 30 days after discharge from an index hospitalization heart failure (HF), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), pneumonia. The aim of this study was to investigate influence psychiatric comorbidities on 30-day following hospitalizations HF, AMI,