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

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 and rea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Glance, Laurent G., Li, Yue, Dick, Andrew W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5420148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28476128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2266-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5420148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28476128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2266-4

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