Hospital-skilled nursing facility referral linkage reduces readmission rates among Medicare patients receiving major surgery

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1461-1468

  Schoenfeld, Andrew J ^a   Zhang, Xuan ^b   Grabowski, David C ^c   Mor, Vincent ^b,d   Weissman, Joel S ^a   Rahman, Momotazur ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITAL SKILLED NURSING FACILITY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING COMPETENCE; NURSING EDUCATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962129278     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2015.12.012     Document Type: Article

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