Carol M Ashton Carol M Ashton

• Application of an Analytic Model to Early Readmission Rates Within the Department of Veterans Affairs

  Naomi R Wray, Nelda P Wray Nelda P Wray et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1997•Referências: 19

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  OBJECTIVES: Adverse outcome rates are increasingly used as yardsticks for the quality of hospital care. However, the validity of many outcome studies has been undermined by the application of one outcome to all patients in large, diagnostically diverse populations, many of which lack evidence of a link between antecedent process of care and the rate of the outcome, the underlying assumption of the analysis. METHODS: To address this analytic probl…

• The Association Between the Quality of Inpatient Care and Early Readmission

  Carol M Ashton, Carol M Ashton Carol M Ashton et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1997•Referências: 27

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  OBJECTIVES: To help resolve the current controversy over the validity of early readmission as an indicator of the quality of care, the authors critically reviewed the literature using meta-analysis to derive summary estimates of effect and evaluate inter-study heterogeneity. METHODS: The authors selected reports meeting five criteria: (1) presentation of new data on medical-surgical hospitalization of adults; (2) measurement of outcome as a perso…

• Application of an Analytic Model to Early Readmission Rates Within the Department of Veterans Affairs

  Naomi R Wray, Nelda P Wray Nelda P Wray et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1997•Referências: 19

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  OBJECTIVES: Adverse outcome rates are increasingly used as yardsticks for the quality of hospital care. However, the validity of many outcome studies has been undermined by the application of one outcome to all patients in large, diagnostically diverse populations, many of which lack evidence of a link between antecedent process of care and the rate of the outcome, the underlying assumption of the analysis. METHODS: To address this analytic probl…

• The Association Between the Quality of Inpatient Care and Early Readmission

  Carol M Ashton, Carol M Ashton Carol M Ashton et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•1997•Referências: 27

  Incluir item

  OBJECTIVES: To help resolve the current controversy over the validity of early readmission as an indicator of the quality of care, the authors critically reviewed the literature using meta-analysis to derive summary estimates of effect and evaluate inter-study heterogeneity. METHODS: The authors selected reports meeting five criteria: (1) presentation of new data on medical-surgical hospitalization of adults; (2) measurement of outcome as a perso…

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