Association Between Medicare Expenditures and Adverse Events for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, or Pneumonia in the United States
Wang Y, Eldridge N, Metersky ML, Sonnenfeld N, Rodrick D, Fine JM, Eckenrode S, Galusha DH, Tasimi A, Hunt DR, Bernheim SM, Normand ST, Krumholz HM. Association Between Medicare Expenditures and Adverse Events for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, or Pneumonia in the United States. JAMA Network Open 2020, 3: e202142. PMID: 32259263, PMCID: PMC7139276, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.2142.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionMedicare Patient Safety Monitoring SystemAdverse event ratesAdverse eventsHeart failureMedicare expendituresService patientsMyocardial infarctionMedicare feeEvent ratesHigher adverse event ratesCare expendituresRisk-standardized ratesPatients 65 yearsAdverse event dataAcute care hospitalsCross-sectional studyFinal study sampleInpatient care expendituresRate of occurrenceDates of analysisPatient characteristicsCare hospitalMean ageInpatient care