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Assessing Hospital Performance for Acute Myocardial Infarction: How Should Emergency Department Tran...

Assessing Hospital Performance for Acute Myocardial Infarction: How Should Emergency Department Tran...

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Assessing Hospital Performance for Acute Myocardial Infarction: How Should Emergency Department Transfers Be Attributed

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Full title

Assessing Hospital Performance for Acute Myocardial Infarction: How Should Emergency Department Transfers Be Attributed

Publisher

United States: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Journal title

Medical care, 2015-03, Vol.53 (3), p.245-252

Language

English

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Publisher

United States: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Contents

BACKGROUND:The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publicly reports risk-standardized mortality rates (RSMRs) to assess quality of care for hospitals that treat acute myocardial infarction patients, and the outcomes for inpatient transfers are attributed to transferring hospitals. However, emergency department (ED) transfers are currently ig...

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Assessing Hospital Performance for Acute Myocardial Infarction: How Should Emergency Department Transfers Be Attributed

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1655522514

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1655522514

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ISSN

0025-7079

E-ISSN

1537-1948

DOI

10.1097/MLR.0000000000000305

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