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All-Cause Readmission and Repeat Revascularization After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Cohort of Medicare Patients

Jeptha P. Curtis, MD^_*,,_*, Geoffrey Schreiner, BS, Yongfei Wang, MS^_*,, Jersey Chen, MD, MPH^_*,, John A. Spertus, MD, MPH^||, John S. Rumsfeld, MD, PhD^¶, Ralph G. Brindis, MD, MPH^# and Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM^_*,,,

^_* Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Section of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
^|| Mid-America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
^¶ Denver Veterans Affairs Hospital, Denver, Colorado
^# Oakland Kaiser Medical Center, Oakland, California

View larger version (31K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 1 Frequency of Principal ICD-9-CM Codes Among Patients Readmitted After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention ICD-9-CM = International Classification of Diseases-9th Revision-Clinical Modification.

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 2 Mean Unadjusted Hospital Readmission Rates by Hospital Decile of Readmission Proportion of readmissions with (purple) and without (pink) an associated revascularization procedure.