The Hospital Readmission Reduction Program Is Associated With Fewer Readmissions, More Deaths: Time to Reconsider

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Oct 10;70(15):1931-1934. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.08.046.

Authors

Gregg C Fonarow¹, Marvin A Konstam², Clyde W Yancy³

Affiliations

¹ Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: gfonarow@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Cardiovascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

PMID: 28982507
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.08.046

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Health Care Costs*
Heart Failure / economics
Heart Failure / mortality*
Heart Failure / therapy
Humans
Medicare
Patient Acceptance of Health Care / statistics & numerical data*
Patient Readmission / statistics & numerical data*
United States