"ProvenCareSM": A provider-driven pay-for-performance program for acute episodic cardiac surgical care

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 246, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 613-621

  Casale, Alfred S ^a   Paulus, Ronald A ^a   Selna, Mark J ^a   Doll, Michael C ^a   Bothe Jr , Albert E ^a   McKinley, Karen E ^a   Berry, Scott A ^a   Davis, Duane E ^a   Gilfillan, Richard J ^a   Hamory, Bruce H ^a   Steele Jr , Glenn D ^a  

^a GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; EPISODE OF CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT READMISSION; PENNSYLVANIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34748874663     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318155a996     Document Type: Article

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