Impact on hospital ranking of basing readmission measures on a composite endpoint of death or readmission versus readmissions alone

• Asıl Yazarlar: Laurent G. Glance (Yazar), Yue Li (Yazar), Andrew W. Dick (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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Abstract Background Readmission penalties are central to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) efforts to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care spending. However, many clinicians believe that readmission metrics may unfairly penalize low-mortality hospitals because mortality...