2024
Incorporating Medicare Advantage Admissions Into the CMS Hospital-Wide Readmission Measure
Kyanko K, Sahay K, Wang Y, Li S, Schreiber M, Hager M, Myers R, Johnson W, Zhang J, Krumholz H, Suter L, Triche E. Incorporating Medicare Advantage Admissions Into the CMS Hospital-Wide Readmission Measure. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2414431. PMID: 38829614, PMCID: PMC11148674, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.14431.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCenters for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesSpecialty subgroupsPerformance quintileMedicare AdvantageReadmission ratesRisk-standardized readmission ratesHospital-wide readmission measureHospital outcome measuresTest-retest reliabilityRisk-adjustment variablesMeasurement reliabilityAdministrative claims dataReadmission measuresImprove measurement reliabilityIntegrated data repositoryMA beneficiariesQuintile rankingsMedicare beneficiariesMedicaid ServicesAll-causePublic reportingStudy assessed differencesClaims dataOutcome measuresMA cohort
2014
National Patterns of Risk-Standardized Mortality and Readmission After Hospitalization for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia: Update on Publicly Reported Outcomes Measures Based on the 2013 Release
Suter LG, Li SX, Grady JN, Lin Z, Wang Y, Bhat KR, Turkmani D, Spivack SB, Lindenauer PK, Merrill AR, Drye EE, Krumholz HM, Bernheim SM. National Patterns of Risk-Standardized Mortality and Readmission After Hospitalization for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia: Update on Publicly Reported Outcomes Measures Based on the 2013 Release. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2014, 29: 1333-1340. PMID: 24825244, PMCID: PMC4175654, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2862-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk-standardized mortality ratesAcute myocardial infarctionHeart failurePneumonia mortalityMyocardial infarctionMedian risk-standardized mortality rateHospital-level mortalityUnplanned readmission ratePrincipal discharge diagnosisHospital performanceRisk-Standardized MortalityHF mortalityReadmission resultsReadmission ratesDischarge diagnosisOutcome measuresAMI mortalityReadmission measuresPneumoniaMortality rateService MedicareHierarchical logistic modelsMortalityMedicaid ServicesReadmission
1998
Self‐Referral for Screening Mammography
Suter L, Elmore J. Self‐Referral for Screening Mammography. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 1998, 13: 710-713. PMID: 9798820, PMCID: PMC1500902, DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1998.00209.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrimary care providersSelf-referred womenCare providersMammography facilitiesPrimary care cliniciansMass screening programYears of ageCare cliniciansClinician recommendationsMean agePhysician referralClinical impactScreening programClinical careResponse rateSelf referralsScreening mammogramsYoung womenScreening mammographyReferralWomenFurther studiesRecent visitMammogramsRepresentative sample