Post-acute care - The next frontier for controlling medicare spending

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 692-694

  Mechanic, Robert ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICARE; ORGANIZATIONAL DOWNSIZING; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POST ACUTE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REHABILITATION CARE; SHORT SURVEY; SUPPORT GROUP;

EID: 84894218062     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1315607     Document Type: Article

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