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Navigating by Stars: Using CMS Star Ratings to Choose Hospitals for Complex Cancer Surgery

BACKGROUND: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed risk-adjusted “Star Ratings,” which serve as a guide for patients to compare hospital quality (1 star = lowest, 5 stars = highest). Although star ratings are not based on surgical care, for many procedures, surgical outcomes...

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Autores principales: Papageorge, Marianna V, Resio, Benjamin J, Monsalve, Andres F, Canavan, Maureen, Pathak, Ranjan, Mase, Vincent J, Dhanasopon, Andrew P, Hoag, Jessica R, Blasberg, Justin D, Boffa, Daniel J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jncics/pkaa059