READMITS Score for Readmissions in Acute MI

• Should be calculated on the first day of hospital admission (model was designed so that all the required parameters would be available during the first 24 hours of hospital admission).

• Patients identified as high-risk are most likely to benefit from targeted readmission reduction interventions (e.g. transition of care programs, which may include components such as reading materials, outpatient follow-up appointment scheduled prior to discharge, and others).

• Readmission reduction interventions are most effective when implemented early in a patient’s hospital course.

Readmission risk was strongly associated with clinical measures of severity. Therefore, early implementation of guideline-recommended acute MI treatments (i.e., early coronary intervention) likely plays an important role in preventing 30-day readmissions.