The Rural Inpatient Mortality Study: Does Urban-Rural County Classification Predict Hospital Mortality in California?
CONCLUSION: Hospitals in medium-sized metro counties are associated with unfavorable Medicare mortality ratings, but current methods to assign mortality ratings may hinder fair comparisons. Patient transfers from rural locations to regional medical centers may contribute to these results, a potential factor that future research should examine.
PMID: 29616911 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Permanente journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: Perm J Source Type: research
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