2019
Substantial Differences Between Cohorts of Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure in Canada and the United States
Lin Z, Li SX. Substantial Differences Between Cohorts of Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure in Canada and the United States. JAMA Cardiology 2019, 4: 1178-1179. PMID: 31532467, DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2019.3314.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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