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Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.

Hospital readmissions in older adult populations are an emerging quality indicator for acute care hospitals. Recent evidence has linked functional decline...

The clinical and social characteristics of a hospital's patient population explain 50 percent of the difference in readmission rates between the best- and the...

Some hospitals facing financial penalties from Medicare for readmitting too many patients soon after discharge have said they are being unfairly penalized....

They encourage health systems to use their complete billing code system to inform care and community benefit investment Researchers at the Case Wester...

Several stories from around the country look at issues facing local health care facilities.

This commentary proposes a bundled measure of unplanned post-hospital care to better assess the true impact of readmissions reductions programs and to avoid...

Hospitals and medical centers in Texas, California, Illinois, Washington and Minnesota are in the news.

Developing a multicomponent intervention appears to have a significant impact on reducing hospital readmissions. Primary care groups seeking to reduce hospital...