Hospital Readmissions and Quality of Care

Medical Care

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 490-501

  Weissman, Joel S ^a,b   Ayanian, John Z ^b,c   Chasan Taber, Scott ^d   Sherwood, Marjorie J ^e   Roth, Carol ^e   Epstein, Arnold M ^b,c,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Boston Biostatistics Inc   (United States)

^e Value Health Sciences   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Medicare; Pneumonia; Quality of health care; Readmissions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; PNEUMONIA; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033126895     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199905000-00008     Document Type: Article

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