Description

The Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) is a unique and powerful database designed to support various types of analyses of national readmission rates for all patients regardless of the expected payer for the hospital stay. The NRD includes discharges for patients with and without repeat hospital visits in a year and those who have died in the hospital. Repeat stays may or may not be related. The criteria to determine the relationship between hospital admissions is left to the analyst using the NRD. This database addresses a large gap in healthcare data - the lack of nationally representative information on hospital readmissions for all ages.

Publisher

U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Timeframe

2010 - Present

Geographic Coverage

United States

Subject of Study

Humans

Subject Domain

Medicine & Health

Population Age

Aged (80 years and over)

Newborn (under 1 month)

Infant (1 to 23 months)

Child (2 to 12 years)

Adolescent (13 to 17 years)

Adult (18 to 64 years)

Keywords

Hospital discharges

Hospitals

Readmissions