READMITS Score — Heart Failure 30-Day Readmission Risk

The READMITS score (REnal function, Diagnosis, Male sex, Admission Insulin Treatment, Systolic blood pressure, and Type of admission) is a validated clinical prediction tool developed to identify heart failure patients at high risk for 30-day hospital readmission after an index heart failure hospitalization. It was derived and validated from a large multicenter heart failure registry to help guide discharge planning, post-discharge follow-up intensity, and resource allocation to reduce the substantial 30-day readmission rate following heart failure hospitalization (approximately 25–30% in the U.S. — the leading cause of preventable hospital readmission under the CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program).