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Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 4/2020

21.10.2019 | Concise Research Report

Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

verfasst von: William B. Weeks, MD, PhD, MBA, James N. Weinstein, DO, MS

Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Ausgabe 4/2020

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Excerpt

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s prevention quality indicators (PQIs) use hospital discharge data to identify admissions for ambulatory care–sensitive conditions (ACSCs).1 Because they might have been avoided with better access to primary care resources, ACSC admissions are widely considered potentially avoidable, and, therefore, wasteful.2,3
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Titel
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
verfasst von
William B. Weeks, MD, PhD, MBA
James N. Weinstein, DO, MS
Publikationsdatum
21.10.2019
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Ausgabe 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Elektronische ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05354-3

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