Association of Changing Hospital Readmission Rates With Mortality Rates After Hospital Discharge | Zendy

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Association of Changing Hospital Readmission Rates With Mortality Rates After Hospital Discharge

Author(s) -

Kumar Dharmarajan,

Yongfei Wang,

Zhenqiu Lin,

SharonLise T. Normand,

Joseph S. Ross,

Leora I. Horwitz,

Nihar R. Desai,

Lisa G. Suter,

Elizabeth E. Drye,

Susannah M. Bernheim,

Harlan M. Krumholz

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

jama

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688

H-Index - 680

eISSN - 1538-3598

pISSN - 0098-7484

DOI - 10.1001/jama.2017.8444

Subject(s) - medicine , hospital discharge , myocardial infarction , pneumonia , hospital readmission , heart failure , emergency medicine , mortality rate

The Affordable Care Act has led to US national reductions in hospital 30-day readmission rates for heart failure (HF), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and pneumonia. Whether readmission reductions have had the unintended consequence of increasing mortality after hospitalization is unknown.

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