ReviewThe journal of behavioral health services & research2007
Is readmission a valid indicator of the quality of inpatient psychiatric care?
Review in The journal of behavioral health services & research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
57 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Substance Use Disorder Treatment Outcomes: Methodological Overview of Metrics and Criteria.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Transitional Interventions in Improving Patient Outcomes and Service Use After Discharge From Psychiatric Inpatient Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Pre-discharge factors predicting readmissions of psychiatric patients: a systematic review of the literature.BMC psychiatry · 2016Pooled it
- Psychiatric readmissions and their association with environmental and health system characteristics: a systematic review of the literature.BMC psychiatry · 2016Pooled it
- Psychiatric hospitalization and rehospitalization among children and adolescents: evidence from 10-years electronic records in Beijing, China.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Predictors of psychiatric readmission within 12 months following discharge from inpatient units in Alberta, Canada.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- The role of a transitional care program in supporting family caregivers to prevent relapse in severe mental illness: a qualitative study from Iran.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Quality of discharge letters concerning readmissions to mental healthcare: case-control study.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Why Go to the Psychiatric Hospital? The Experiences of People Living with Mental Disorders Hospitalized Multiple Times in One Year: A Qualitative Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Factors Associated with Hospital Readmission in a Population with a Diagnosis of Personality Disorder.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2024Observational
- The effect of legal representation on clinical measures in involuntarily admitted psychiatric patients: a retrospective study.Israel journal of health policy research · 2024Article
- Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Quality of Care Among Medicaid Beneficiaries With Schizophrenia.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Factors Associated With Child and Youth Mental Health Readmissions From a US National Database.JAACAP open · 2024Article
- A predictive model for readmission within 1-year post-discharge in patients with schizophrenia.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Reducing wait times and avoiding unnecessary use of high-cost mental health services through a Rapid Access and Stabilization Program: protocol for a program evaluation study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Are early post-discharge physician contacts associated with 30-day psychiatric re-hospitalisation? A nationwide claims data based retrospective cohort study in Austria free of immortal time bias.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2023Article
- Exploring risk factors for re-hospitalization in a psychiatric inpatient setting: a retrospective naturalistic study.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Readmission of Patients to Acute Psychiatric Hospitals: Influential Factors and Interventions to Reduce Psychiatric Readmission Rates.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Operationalizing Engagement With an Interpretation Bias Smartphone App Intervention: Case Series.JMIR mental health · 2022Article
- Discharge interventions from inpatient child and adolescent mental health care: a scoping review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Early return to hospital is a frequently measured outcome in mental health system performance monitoring yet its validity for evaluating quality of inpatient care is unclear. This study reviewed research conducted in the last decade on predictors of early readmission (within 30 to 90 days of discharge) to assess the association between this indicator and quality of inpatient psychiatric care. Only 13 studies met inclusion criteria. Results indicated that risk is greatest in the 30-day period immediately after discharge. There was modest support that attending to stability of clinical condition and preparing patients for discharge can protect against early readmission. A history of repeated admission increases risk, suggesting that special efforts are required to break the revolving door cycle. The authors identified a need for more standardization in measurement of client status at discharge and related care processes, more intervention studies on discharge practices, and studies of the effect of community care on early readmission.
Indexed as
Identifiers
17437186What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.