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Association of Rural and Critical Access Hospital Status With Patient Outcomes After Emergency Department Visits Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Description
Compares 30-day outcomes for 473,152 Medicare patients after emergency department (ED) visits in rural or urban settings and in Critical Access Hospitals. Features statistics on mortality, ED revisits, hospitalization and transfer patterns by commonly encountered ED conditions, and characteristics of patients and of hospitals studied, with breakdowns by urban or rural location.
Author(s)
Margaret Greenwood-Ericksen, Neil Kamdar, Paul Lin, et al.
Citation
JAMA Network Open, 4(11)
Date
11/2021
Type
Document
Tagged as
Critical Access Hospitals · Emergency department and urgent care services · Healthcare quality · Medicare · Mortality · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data