Hospital readmission performance and patterns of readmission: Retrospective cohort study of Medicare admissions

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Dharmarajan, Kumar ^a   Hsieh, Angela F ^b   Lin, Zhenqiu ^b   Bueno, Héctor ^c   Ross, Joseph S ^d   Horwitz, Leora I ^d   Barreto Filho, José Augusto ^e   Kim, Nancy ^d   Suter, Lisa G ^d   Bernheim, Susannah M ^b   Drye, Elizabeth E ^b   Krumholz, Harlan M ^b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888170228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f6571     Document Type: Article

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