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Readmission rates were an ineffective measure of a hospital’s quality because they did not take into account readmissions from different hospitals, resulting in a large number of unaccounted for readmissions, according to recent research.“Without different-hospital readmissions data, hospitals cannot track their readmission performance accurately over time, conduct meaningful hospital comparisons, or anticipate rates that could be used to assign financial penalties,” Alisa Khan, MD, MPH, of the division of general pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, and colleagues wrote. “As increasing attention is directed toward improving quality by reducing readmissions, readmissions should be enumerated accurately — namely, different-hospital readmissions should be included in readmission rate calculations.”

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This week, the most frequently viewed ophthalmology articles on Healio.com ranged from business news from leading ophthalmology companies to peer-reviewed journal summaries.

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An 8-year-old Asian boy presented with vision loss in the right eye for 1 day. He described a central area of vision loss with intact peripheral vision. At the onset of the vision loss, he had a mild headache that resolved. He did not have any eye pain…

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Recurrence of neovascular age-related macular degeneration after anti-VEGF treatment may be associated with age and gender, and occur sooner in patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, according to a study.The retrospective cohort study evaluat…

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