Who has higher readmission rates for heart failure, and why? Implications for efforts to improve care using financial incentives

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-59

  Joynt, Karen E ^a   Jha, Ashish K ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Outcomes research; Quality of care; Readmissions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952786085     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.110.950964     Document Type: Article

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