Development and use of an administrative claims measure for profiling hospital-wide performance on 30-day unplanned readmission

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue , 2014, Pages S66-S75

  Horwitz, Leora I ^a   Partovian, Chohreh ^b   Lin, Zhenqiu ^b   Grady, Jacqueline N ^b   Herrin, Jeph ^c   Conover, Mitchell ^c   Montague, Julia ^b   Dillaway, Chloe ^c   Bartczak, Kathleen ^c   Suter, Lisa G ^b   Ross, Joseph S ^d   Bernheim, Susannah M ^b   Krumholz, Harlan M ^b   Drye, Elizabeth E ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Yale New Haven Hospital ^*  (Poland)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK STANDARDIZED READMISSION RATE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL; INSURANCE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919459582     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M13-3000     Document Type: Article

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