Ending extra payment for "never events" - Stronger incentives for patients' safety

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2388-2390

  Milstein, Arnold ^a,b  

^a Mercer Health Benefits LLC   (United States)

^b Pacific Business Group on Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CATHETER INFECTION; COST CONTROL; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FALLING; FOREIGN BODY; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL COST; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICARE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN ULCER; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 66649092621     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0809125     Document Type: Article

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