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SUBMITTER: Thomas KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4692800 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thomas Kali S KS Rahman Momotazur M Mor Vincent V Intrator Orna O
The American journal of managed care 20141101 11
<h4>Objectives</h4>To determine whether the quality of the hospital and of the nursing home (NH) to which a patient was discharged were related to the likelihood of rehospitalization.<h4>Study design</h4>Retrospective cohort study of 1,382,477 individual hospitalizations discharged to 15,356 NHs from 3683 hospitals between 2006 and 2008.<h4>Methods</h4>Data come from Medicare claims and enrollment records, Minimum Data Set, Online Survey Certification and Reporting Dataset, Hospital Compare, and ...[more]