Association of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program with Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, and Pneumonia

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 320, Issue 24, 2018, Pages 2542-2552

  Wadhera, Rishi K ^a,b   Joynt Maddox, Karen E ^c   Wasfy, Jason H ^d   Haneuse, Sebastien ^e   Shen, Changyu ^a   Yeh, Robert W ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSIONS REDUCTION PROGRAM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART INFARCTION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85058918816     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.19232     Document Type: Article

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