Thirty-day hospital readmission following discharge from postacute rehabilitation in fee-for-service medicare patients

JAMA

Volumn 311, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 604-614

  Ottenbacher, Kenneth J ^a   Karmarkar, Amol ^a   Graham, James E ^a   Kuo, Yong Fang ^b   Deutsch, Anne ^c,d   Reistetter, Timothy A ^e   Al Snih, Soham ^a   Granger, Carl V ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UTMB   (United States)

^f Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGITIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART FAILURE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LEG FRACTURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEGRO; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OLIGOPHRENIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REHABILITATION CARE; REHABILITATION CENTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84893653553     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.8     Document Type: Article

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