The Impact of Disability and Social Determinants of Health on Condition-Specific Readmissions beyond Medicare Risk Adjustments: A Cohort Study

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 71-80

  Meddings, Jennifer ^a,b,c   Reichert, Heidi ^a,c   Smith, Shawna N ^a,c   Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a,b,c   Langa, Kenneth M ^a,b,c,d   Hofer, Timothy P ^a,b,c   McMahon, Laurence F ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

heart failure; Medicare; pneumonia; readmission; risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICARE; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

EID: 84995451147     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3869-x     Document Type: Article

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