Timing, Diagnosis, and Potential Preventability of 30-Day Unplanned Readmissions After a Heart Failure Hospitalisation: Implications for Care Quality
The peak risk of unplanned readmission occurred in the first few days after discharge, often for potentially preventable reasons such as hospital-acquired complications and recurrent heart failure. Such early and potentially preventable readmissions suggest many may be related to suboptimal quality of hospital care and discharge practices. Future clinical and policy interventions should target improving hospital-based heart failure care quality to reduce avoidable readmissions.
Authors
- William Parsonage (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0223-5378)
- Isuru Ranasinghe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0982-1561)
- J. Fryar
- Maryam Bayat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9699-4892)
- Wandy Chan
- Trang Dang
- Sunnya Khawaja
Institutions
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (AU)
- Prince Charles Hospital (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Heart Lung and Circulation
- Published
- 2025-09-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2025.04.085
- Primary Topic
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Queensland Health
- Menzies School of Health Research
- National Heart Foundation of Australia
- Department of Health, State Government of Victoria
- Tasmanian Department of Health