Understanding why patients with COPD get readmitted: A large national study to delineate the medicare population for the readmissions penalty expansion

Chest

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1219-1226

  Shah, Tina ^a   Churpek, Matthew M ^a   Perraillon, Marcelo Coca ^a   Konetzka, R Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929492499     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-2181     Document Type: Article

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