Comparing the hospitalizations of transfer and non-transfer patients in an academic medical center

Academic Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 262-266

  Bernard, Annette M ^a,b,g   Hayward, Rodney A ^c,d   Rosevear, Judith ^c   Chun, Hingson ^e,f   McMahon Jr , Laurence F ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UMMS   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UMMS   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 0030010095     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199603000-00019     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Gable J, Rice T. Is managed competition a field of dreams? J Am Health Policy. 1993;1:19-24.
2. Iglehart JK. Rapid changes for academic medical centers, part I. N Engl J Med. 1994;331:1991-5.
3. Iglehart JK. Rapid changes for academic medical centers, part II. N Engl J Med. 1995; 332:407-11.
4. Iglehart JK. The American health care system: teaching hospitals. N Engl J Med. 1993; 329:1052-6.
5. Munoz E, Soldano R, Gross H, Chalfin D, Mulloy K, Wise L. Diagnosis related groups and the transfer of general surgical patients between hospitals. Arch Surg. 1988;123:68-71.
6. Escarce JJ, Kelley MA. Admission source to the medical intensive care unit predicts hospital death independent of APACHE II score. JAMA. 1990;264:2389-94.
7. Borlase BC, Baxter JK, Kenney PR, Forse RA, Benotti PN, Blackburn GL. Elective intrahospital admissions versus acute interhospital transfers to a surgical intensive care unit: cost and outcome prediction. J Trauma. 1991;31:915-8.
8. Jencks SF, Bobula JD. Does receiving referral and transfer patients make hospitals expensive? Med Care. 1988;26:948-58.
9. Hurley J, Linz D, Swint E. Assessing the effects of the Medicare Prospective Payment System on the demand for VA inpatient services: an examination of transfers and discharges of problem patients. Health Serv Res.; 1990;25:239-55.
10. McMahon LF, Creighton FA, Bernard AM, Pittinger WB, Kelley WN. The integrated inpatient management model. Ann Intern Med. 1989; 111:318-26.
11. Schweiker RS. Report to Congress: Hospital Prospective Payment for Medicare. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983.
12. Department of Health and Human Services. Medicare program. Prospective payment of Medicare inpatient hospitalization. Interim final rule. Fed Reg. 1983;48:39752-890.
13. McMahon LF. Diagnosis-related group prospective payment. Eval Health Prof 1984;7:25-41.
14. Finkler SA. The distinction between costs and charges. Ann Intern Med. 1982;196:102-9.
15. University of Michigan Finance Office, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Personal communication, June 23, 1993.
16. Kuzynski YA, Hayward RA, Rosevear J, McMahon LF. Transfer status and vascular surgery patients. Abstract presented at the national meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine, Washington, DC, April 1994.
17. Thomas JW, Ashcraft MLF. Measuring severity of illness: six severity systems and their ability to explain cost variations. Inquiry. 1991; 28:39-55.
18. Epstein AM, Stern RS, Weissman JS. Do the poor cost more? A multihospital study of patient's socioeconomic status and use of hospital resources. N Engl J Med. 1990;322:1122-8.
19. Duncan RP, McKinstry AK. Inpatient transfers and uncompensated care. Hosp Health Serv Admin. 1988;33:237-48.