2019
Association of Hospital Payment Profiles With Variation in 30-Day Medicare Cost for Inpatients With Heart Failure or Pneumonia
Krumholz HM, Wang Y, Wang K, Lin Z, Bernheim SM, Xu X, Desai NR, Normand ST. Association of Hospital Payment Profiles With Variation in 30-Day Medicare Cost for Inpatients With Heart Failure or Pneumonia. JAMA Network Open 2019, 2: e1915604. PMID: 31730185, PMCID: PMC6902811, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.15604.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHeart failureSame patientSame diagnosisMortality rateRisk-standardized mortality ratesHighest quartile hospitalsObservational cohort studyMedian hospitalQuartile hospitalsIndex hospitalizationCohort studyCritical access hospitalsPatient characteristicsHospital variationAcute careEpisode paymentsPrincipal diagnosisMAIN OUTCOMEMedicare feePneumoniaMedicare beneficiariesPatientsCase mixService Part ADifferent hospitals
2016
Life Expectancy after Myocardial Infarction, According to Hospital Performance
Bucholz EM, Butala NM, Ma S, Normand ST, Krumholz HM. Life Expectancy after Myocardial Infarction, According to Hospital Performance. New England Journal Of Medicine 2016, 375: 1332-1342. PMID: 27705249, PMCID: PMC5118048, DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1513223.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionRisk-standardized mortality ratesMyocardial infarctionLife expectancyMortality rateHospital performanceCooperative Cardiovascular ProjectProportional hazards modelLong-term survivalCase-mix severityLonger life expectancySurvival benefitInfarctionMedicare beneficiariesPatientsHospital case mixCase mixHospitalSurvival curvesQuintileStudy sampleSignificant differencesEarly survivalExpectancySurvival
2015
National trends in hospital length of stay for acute myocardial infarction in China
Li Q, Lin Z, Masoudi FA, Li J, Li X, Hernández-Díaz S, Nuti SV, Li L, Wang Q, Spertus JA, Hu FB, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. National trends in hospital length of stay for acute myocardial infarction in China. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2015, 15: 9. PMID: 25603877, PMCID: PMC4360951, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-15-9.Peer-Reviewed Original Research