Trends in 30-Day Readmission Rates for Medicare and Non-Medicare Patients in the Era of the Affordable Care Act

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 1324-1331.e14

  Angraal, Suveen ^a   Khera, Rohan ^b   Zhou, Shengfan ^a   Wang, Yongfei ^a,c   Lin, Zhenqiu ^a   Dharmarajan, Kumar ^a,c,d   Desai, Nihar R ^a,c   Bernheim, Susannah M ^a,e   Drye, Elizabeth E ^a,c   Nasir, Khurram ^a,c   Horwitz, Leora I ^a,f   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,c,g  

^a YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Now with Clover Health   (United States)

^e Department of Medicine   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicaid; Medicare; Private insurance; Readmissions; Trends

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREND STUDY; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; PATIENT READMISSION; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85052906614     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.06.013     Document Type: Article

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