National patterns of risk-standardized mortality and readmission after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia: Update on publicly reported outcomes measures based on the 2013 release

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1333-1340

  Suter, Lisa G ^a   Li, Shu Xia ^a   Grady, Jacqueline N ^a   Lin, Zhenqiu ^a   Wang, Yongfei ^a   Bhat, Kanchana R ^a   Turkmani, Dima ^b   Spivack, Steven B ^a   Lindenauer, Peter K ^c,d   Merrill, Angela R ^e   Drye, Elizabeth E ^a   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a   Bernheim, Susannah M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Yale School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

heart failure; mortality; myocardial infarction; outcome measures; performance measurement; pneumonia; readmission

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATE; RISK STANDARDIZED READMISSION RATE; SEX RATIO; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; UNITED STATES; VETERANS HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907861120     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2862-5     Document Type: Article

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