Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Home Health Quality Initiative.
1.131 Percent of acute care hospitalization for home health episodes, by State, 2002 and 2004.
Calculated by the Center for Health Services and Policy, Research, University of Colorado, from Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data.
All home health episodes that begin and end in the survey year.
Episodes in which a person was hospitalized for an acute condition while receiving home health care services.
Reason for hospitalization may be for emergent, urgent, or elective conditions.
Risk-adjusted rates are available for State estimates only. Particulars about risk adjustment and further information about this and other measures of the Home Health Quality Initiative are available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/center/quality.asp.