Trends in Hospitalization vs Observation Stay for Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions

Jose F Figueroa; Laura G Burke; Jie Zheng; E John Orav; Ashish K Jha

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.3177

Trends in Hospitalization vs Observation Stay for Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Dec 1;179(12):1714-1716. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.3177.

Authors

Jose F Figueroa^{1

2

3}, Laura G Burke^{1

3

4}, Jie Zheng¹, E John Orav^{1

2}, Ashish K Jha^{1

3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study of Medicare-defined avoidable hospital stays for conditions such as urinary tract infection and complications of diabetes uses Medicare Fee-for-Service Inpatient and Outpatient Claim Files to investigate whether a decrease in inpatient admissions from 2011 to 2015 represented real gains in ambulatory care.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Ambulatory Care / trends*
Hospitalization / trends*
Humans
Medicare
United States