Facility Medicaid Burden and Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection-Related Mortality

Jodi-Ann S Edwards; Sherene E Sharath; Panos Kougias

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4744

Facility Medicaid Burden and Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection-Related Mortality

JAMA Surg. 2024 Nov 27. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4744. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Jodi-Ann S Edwards¹, Sherene E Sharath^{1

2

3}, Panos Kougias^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn.
³ Operative Care/Research Service Line, Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Health Care System, New York.

PMID: 39602113
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4744

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Plain language summary

This cohort study examines whether the Medicaid-payer proportion in hospital admissions is associated with in-hospital deaths from necrotizing soft tissue infection.