828. Evaluation of Home Time as a Patient-Centered Metric for Pneumonia Hospitalizations: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries

BACKGROUND: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses hospital readmission to incentivize hospital care delivery for acute conditions including pneumonia. However, current CMS performance metrics do not account for the competing risk of mortality in the post-discharge period or dur...

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Published in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Main Authors: Nair, Rajeshwari, Gao, Yubo, Vaughan-Sarrazin, Mary, Perencevich, Eli N, Girotra, Saket, Pandey, Ambarish
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7777571/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.1017
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