Association of hospital critical access status with surgical outcomes and expenditures among medicare beneficiaries

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 315, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 2095-2103

  Ibrahim, Andrew M ^a,b   Hughes, Tyler G ^b   Thumma, Jyothi R ^a,b   Dimick, Justin B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Hughes   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGE; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL; CRITICAL CARE OUTCOME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICARE; OBESITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REOPERATION; SEX; SURGICAL INFECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLECTOMY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HERNIORRHAPHY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84969199733     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.5618     Document Type: Article

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