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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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| 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 |