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New Deales: Other Approximations Of Life Expectancy, Emmett Keeler, Robert Bell
New Deales: Other Approximations Of Life Expectancy, Emmett Keeler, Robert Bell
Emmett Keeler
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Hospital Characteristics And Quality Of Care, E. Keeler, L. Rubenstein, K. Kahn, D. Draper, E. Harrison, M. Mcginty, W. Rogers, R. Brook
Hospital Characteristics And Quality Of Care, E. Keeler, L. Rubenstein, K. Kahn, D. Draper, E. Harrison, M. Mcginty, W. Rogers, R. Brook
Emmett Keeler
OBJECTIVE: To compare quality of care measured by explicit criteria, implicit review, and sickness-adjusted outcomes at different types of hospitals. DESIGN: Further analysis of data retrospectively abstracted from medical records to evaluate the effects of prospective payment on quality of care for hospitalized Medicare patients. SETTING: Hospitals in five states were sampled to represent the national Medicare admissions along many dimensions. PATIENTS: A total of 14,008 elderly patients with one of the following five diseases: congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, stroke, or hip fracture. These patients were randomly sampled from those with these diseases in 297 hospitals in …