Hospital readmission as an accountability measure

JAMA. 2011 Feb 2;305(5):504-5. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.72.

Authors

R Neal Axon¹, Mark V Williams

Affiliation

¹ Center for Disease Prevention and Health Interventions for Diverse Populations, and the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. axon@musc.edu

PMID: 21285430
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.72

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Health Policy
Health Status Disparities
Heart Failure
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Medicare / economics*
Medicare / standards
Medicare / statistics & numerical data
Myocardial Infarction
Patient Readmission / statistics & numerical data*
Pneumonia
Quality Indicators, Health Care / statistics & numerical data*
Reimbursement, Incentive*
United States