Association between hospital penalty status under the hospital readmission reduction program and readmission rates for target and nontarget conditions

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 316, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 2647-2656

  Desai, Nihar R ^a,b   Ross, Joseph S ^a,b,c   Kwon, Ji Young ^b   Herrin, Jeph ^a,d   Dharmarajan, Kumar ^a,b   Bernheim, Susannah M ^b   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b,c   Horwitz, Leora I ^e,f  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Health Research and Educational Trust   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PENALTY STATUS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION REDUCTION PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; LAW; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL FEE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; LEGISLATION, HOSPITAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85008477713     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.18533     Document Type: Article

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