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SUBMITTER: Ryskina KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6829581 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ryskina Kira L KL Yuan Yihao Y Teng Shelly S Burke Robert R
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20190401 4
Although approximately one in five Medicare beneficiaries are discharged from hospital acute care to postacute care at skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), little is known about access to timely medical care for these patients after they are admitted to a SNF. Our analysis of 2,392,753 such discharges from hospitals under fee-for-service Medicare in the period January 2012-October 2014 indicated that first visits by a physician or advanced practitioner (a nurse practitioner or physician assistant) ...[more]