Diagnosis Coding and Differences in Mortality Between Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and Non-CAHs

This study uses Medicare data to estimate mortality differences for common medical conditions (pneumonia, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, urinary tract infection, others) at US critical access vs non –critical access hospitals between 2007 and 2017 with vs without adjustment for discharge diagnosis counts to assess the extent to which coding practices rather than illness severity might account for observed mortality differences.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research