Impact of prior admissions on 30-day readmissions in medicare heart failure inpatients

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 623-630

  Hummel, Scott L ^a,b   Katrapati, Prashanth ^a   Gillespie, Brenda W ^c   DeFranco, Anthony C ^d,e   Koelling, Todd M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center (SMITREC)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Aurora Health Care ^*

^e AURORA HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MICHIGAN; PATIENT READMISSION; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901589703     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: 19425546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.12.018     Document Type: Article

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