Date of Conferral
2016
Degree
Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.)
School
Business Administration
Advisor
Stephanie Kramer
Abstract
Medical errors occur at the prescription step due to lack adequate knowledge of medications by the physician, failure to adhere to policies and procedures, memory lapses, confusion in nomenclature, and illegible handwriting. Unfortunately, these errors can lead to patient readmission within 30 days of dismissal. Hospital leaders lose 0.25% to 1% of Medicare’s annual reimbursement for a patient readmitted within 30 days for the same illness. United States, lawmakers posited the use of health information technology, such as computerized physician order entry scores systems (CPOES), reduced hospital readmission, improved the quality of service, and reduced the cost of healthcare. Grounded in systems theory, the purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationship between computerized physician order entry scores, medication reconciliation scores, and 30-day readmission rates. Archival data were collected from 117 hospitals in the southeastern region of the United States. Using multiple linear regression to analyze the data, the model as a whole did not significantly predict 30-day hospital readmission rate, F (2, 114) = 1.928, p = .150, R2 = .033. However, medical reconciliation scores provided a slightly higher contribution to the model (β = .173) than CPOES (β = .059. The implications for positive social change included the potential to provide hospital administrators with a better understanding of factors that may relate to 30-day readmission rates. Patients stand to benefit from improved service, decreased cost, and quality of healthcare.
Recommended Citation
Carter, Henry M., "Relationship Between Hospital Performance Measures and 30-Day Readmission Rates" (2016). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 2958.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2958
