Solventum™ Potentially Preventable Returns to the Hospital (PPRH) Classification System
Traditionally, healthcare organizations have used preventable hospital readmissions to measure the quality of inpatient care, but this metric tells only part of the story. ED revisits and observation stays are also critical drivers of resource utilization and outcomes.
The Solventum™ Potentially Preventable Returns to the Hospital (PPRH) Classification System uses clinically precise criteria to identify returns to acute care — including unscheduled hospital readmissions, ED visits and ED observation stays — that could potentially have been prevented through better inpatient care, discharge planning and follow-up coordination. These insights can inform value-based care, quality initiatives and performance-based payment.
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All about Solventum PPRH
The Solventum PPRH Classification System identifies potentially preventable unscheduled returns to the hospital that occur after an inpatient stay for all patient populations. It uses these criteria:
- An unscheduled hospital readmission, ED visit or ED observation stay
- Clinically related to a prior admission
- Potentially preventable
- Occurs within a user-defined window (e.g., 7, 15 or 30 days after discharge)
Solventum PPRH provides a complete post-discharge picture of all potentially preventable returns to the hospital by using diagnoses and procedure data to determine whether a readmission, ED revisit or ED observation stay is clinically related to a prior admission. Healthcare organizations can use the resulting insights to improve quality, enhance the patient experience, improve patient safety and reduce avoidable high-cost events.
Government health programs and health plans can use Solventum PPRH to:
- Gain a comprehensive, clear and actionable view of post-discharge performance.
- Make fair performance assessments. Results can be compared across health systems, regions or plans to support fair reporting and help develop value-based payment models.
- Identify specific drivers of avoidable utilization to inform value-based contracts.
- Enable defensible benchmarking and accurate performance comparisons at the plan level.
Hospitals and health systems can use Solventum PPRH to:
- Gain a complete post-discharge picture of all potentially preventable returns to the hospital.
- Identify specific drivers of avoidable utilization to inform targeted interventions and quality initiatives.
- Compare performance across departments and discharge types to identify improvement opportunities.
- Enable defensible benchmarking and accurate performance comparisons at the hospital or service line level.
Gain additional insights into potentially preventable events by combining with:
- Solventum™ Potentially Preventable Complications (PPCs) Classification System, which identifies potentially preventable inpatient complications.
- Solventum™ Population-focused Preventables (PFPs) Classification System, which identifies potentially avoidable hospital admissions, ancillary services and ED visits at a population level.
Customers of Solventum™ Grouper Plus Content Services (GPCS) and the Solventum™ Core Grouping Software (CGS) can have Solventum PPRH information delivered to their system or database application.
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