Despite the advancement in medicine, management of heart failure (HF), which usually
presents as a disease syndrome, has been a challenge to healthcare providers. This is …

Heart failure (HF) is a growing healthcare burden and one of the leading causes of
hospitalizations and readmission. Preventing readmissions for HF patients is an increasing …

Importance Public reporting of hospitals' 30-day risk-standardized readmission rates
following heart failure hospitalization and the financial penalization of hospitals with higher …

A growing body of evidence has shown that neighborhood characteristics have significant
effects on quality metrics that evaluate health plans or health care providers. Using a data …

Hospital readmission measures have been touted not only as a quality measure but also as
a means to bend the healthcare cost curve. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the …

Importance Few studies have analyzed contemporary data on outcomes at US teaching
hospitals vs nonteaching hospitals. Objective To examine risk-adjusted outcomes for …

Background Hospitals under financial pressure may struggle to maintain quality and patient
safety and have worse patient outcomes relative to well-resourced hospitals. Poor predictive …

Introduction From a prospective multicentre multicountry clinical trial, we developed and
validated risk models to predict prospective all‐cause mortality and hospitalizations because …

Background Hospital mortality, readmission and length of stay (LOS) are commonly used
measures for quality of care. We aimed to disentangle the correlations between these …

Introduction Hospital readmission rates are increasingly used for both quality improvement
and cost control. However, the validity of readmission rates as a measure of quality of …