Safety-Net Hospitals, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Readmissions Under Maryland's All-Payer Program: An Observational Study

Safety-Net Hospitals, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Readmissions Under Maryland's All-Payer Program: An Observational Study

Published: Jul 16, 2019
Publisher: Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 171, issue 2
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Authors

Stephen F. Jencks

Alyson Schuster

Geoff B. Dougherty

Jane E. Brock

Amy J.H. Kind

Safety-net hospitals have higher-than-expected readmission rates. The relative roles of the mean disadvantage of neighborhoods the hospitals serve and the disadvantage of individual patients in predicting a patient's readmission are unclear.

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