Impact of Hospital Population Case-Mix, Including Poverty, on Hospital All-Cause and Infection-Related 30-Day Readmission Rates

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1235-1243

  Gohil, Shruti K ^a   Datta, Rupak ^b   Cao, Chenghua ^a   Phelan, Michael J ^c   Nguyen, Vinh ^c   Rowther, Armaan A ^a   Huang, Susan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare associated infections; Hospital infections; Poverty; Readmissions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RELATED READMISSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; ODDS RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; POVERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84943234746     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ539     Document Type: Article

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