Trends in the Use of Skilled Nursing Facility and Home Health Care under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Interrupted Time Series Analysis 95%
• Skilled Nursing Facilities 95%
• Patient Readmission 79%
• Home Care Services 72%
• Nursing Homes 70%
• Pneumonia 46%
• Delivery of Health Care 42%
• Heart Failure 33%
• Myocardial Infarction 33%
• Medicare 23%
• Subacute Care 16%
• Fee-for-Service Plans 14%
• Nursing Care 12%
• Health Services 10%
• Critical Care 10%
• Research Design 9%
• Referral and Consultation 8%

Social Sciences

• home health care 100%
• time series analysis 86%
• nursing 52%
• trend 33%
• utilization 30%
• penalty 15%
• fee-for-service 8%
• health care services 6%
• projection 5%
• research planning 5%