2020
Where Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Get Acute Care: Is the Emergency Department the Medical Home?
Venkatesh AK, Gettel CJ, Mei H, Chou SC, Rothenberg C, Liu SL, D’Onofrio G, Lin Z, Krumholz HM. Where Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Get Acute Care: Is the Emergency Department the Medical Home? Journal Of Applied Gerontology 2020, 40: 828-836. PMID: 32842827, PMCID: PMC7904961, DOI: 10.1177/0733464820950125.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute care visitsCare visitsEmergency departmentMedicare beneficiariesSNF staySNF servicesSkilled nursing facility residentsNursing facility residentsSkilled nursing facility servicesAcute care capabilitiesCross-sectional analysisNursing facility servicesHigher proportionAcute careMedical homeFacility residentsCare capabilitiesVisitsNumber of daysStayCareDepartmentFacility servicesBeneficiariesProportion
2018
Defining Multiple Chronic Conditions for Quality Measurement
Drye EE, Altaf FK, Lipska KJ, Spatz ES, Montague JA, Bao H, Parzynski CS, Ross JS, Bernheim SM, Krumholz HM, Lin Z. Defining Multiple Chronic Conditions for Quality Measurement. Medical Care 2018, 56: 193-201. PMID: 29271820, DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000853.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultiple chronic conditionsChronic conditionsMedicare feeService beneficiariesMedicare Chronic Conditions WarehouseMCC cohortBroad cohortChronic Conditions WarehouseRisk-standardized ratesNational quality measuresUnplanned admissionsFinal cohortTotal admissionsAdmission riskAccountable care organizationsAdmission ratesOutcome measuresAdmissionCohortCohort conditionCare organizationsPatientsStakeholder inputNarrow cohortBeneficiaries