Interventions to decrease hospital readmission rates: Who saves? Who pays?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1230-1231

  Katz, Mitchell H ^a  

^a LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT READMISSION; RHODE ISLAND; SOCIAL WORK; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960940383     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.309     Document Type: Editorial

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