Planned readmissions: A potential solution

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-270

  Berkowitz, Scott A ^a   Anderson, Gerard F ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; PATIENT READMISSION;

EID: 84857388927     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.606     Document Type: Note

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