Patient Characteristics and Differences in Hospital Readmission Rates
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Hospital Readmission Rates
Medicare penalises hospitals that have higher than expected rates of readmissions within 30 days of discharge. The penalties are imposed to ensure hospitals make en effort to improve quality of care and focus more on proper discharge planning. Medicare levied penalties accumulating to $428 million on 2600 hospitals in 2014. The largest penalties were imposed on hospitals that serve disadvantage...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Internal Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2168-6106
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.4660