Preventable Admissions on a General Medicine Service: Prevalence, Causes and Comparison with AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicators—A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 597-601

  Patel, Krishna K ^a   Vakharia, Nirav ^a   Pile, James ^a   Howell, Erik H ^a,b   Rothberg, Michael B ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

preventable admissions; quality indicators; value based purchasing

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PURCHASING; REIMBURSEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT READMISSION; PREVALENCE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; VALUE-BASED PURCHASING;

EID: 84958768823     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3615-4     Document Type: Article

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