Who Has Higher Readmission Rates for Heart Failure, and Why?
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Who has higher readmission rates for heart failure, and why? Implications for efforts to improve care using financial incentives.
BACKGROUND Reducing readmissions for heart failure is an important goal for policymakers. Current national policies financially penalize hospitals with high readmission rates, which may have unintended consequences if these institutions are resource-poor, either financially or clinically. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed national claims data for Medicare patients with heart failure discharged ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1941-7713,1941-7705
DOI: 10.1161/circoutcomes.110.950964