Overlooked Care Transitions: An Opportunity to Reduce Acute Care Use in ESRD
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Overlooked care transitions: an opportunity to reduce acute care use in ESRD.
A major goal of United States health care reform is to reduce hospital readmissions. In 2012, approximately 18% of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital were readmittedwithin 30 days (1). According to one estimate, readmissions cost the Medicare program .$17 billion in 2004 (2). In an effort to address this problem, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) enacted a pay ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.00220115