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January 23/30, 2013, Vol 309, No. 4, Pages 309-406 | Hospital Readmissions

Research Letter

Characteristics of Hospitals Receiving Penalties Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Karen E. Joynt, MD, MPH; Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):342-343. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.94856
This Week in JAMA

This Week in JAMA

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JAMA. 2013;309(4):309. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.145183
Viewpoint

Thirty-Day Readmissions: The Clock Is Ticking

Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, MPH; Robert O. Bonow, MD, MS; Mihai Gheorghiade, MD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):345-346. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.205110

Time to Get Serious About Pay for Performance

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):347-348. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.196646

Tension Between Quality Measurement, Public Quality Reporting, and Pay for Performance

Steven A. Farmer, MD, PhD; Bernard Black, MA, JD; Robert O. Bonow, MD, MS
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):349-350. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.191276

Recasting Readmissions by Placing the Hospital Role in Community Context

Douglas McCarthy, MBA; Marian Bihrle Johnson, MPH; Anne-Marie Audet, MD, MSc
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):351-352. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.1
A Piece of My Mind

Hating Hope

Renee K. Rutledge, MD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):353-354. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.185447
Original Contribution

Diagnoses and Timing of 30-Day Readmissions After Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia

Kumar Dharmarajan, MD, MBA; Angela F. Hsieh, PhD; Zhenqiu Lin, PhD; et al.
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):355-363. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.216476

To help clinicians develop strategies to reduce readmission rates, Dharmarajan and coauthors tracked 30-day readmission rates after hospital release among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia. See the related Editorial by Williams.

  • Audio Author Interview: Diagnoses and Timing of 30-Day Readmissions After Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia

Use of Hospital-Based Acute Care Among Patients Recently Discharged From the Hospital

Anita A. Vashi, MD, MPH; Justin P. Fox, MD, MHS; Brendan G. Carr, MD, MS; et al.
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):364-371. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.216219

Vashi and coauthors report on the use of hospital-based acute care among patients recently discharged from the hospital. In an accompanying Editorial, Williams discusses the requirement to reduce hospital readmissions.

Pediatric Readmission Prevalence and Variability Across Hospitals

Jay G. Berry, MD, MPH; Sara L. Toomey, MD, MPhil, MPH; Alan M. Zaslavsky, PhD; et al.
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):372-380. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.188351

Berry and coauthors investigate the prevalence of pediatric readmissions and the variation in pediatric readmission rates across hospitals by analyzing 568 845 admissions at 72 children’s hospitals. In an Editorial, Srivastava and Keren discuss pediatric readmission rates as a marker of health care utilization that can lead eventually to identifying quality measures.

Association Between Quality Improvement for Care Transitions in Communities and Rehospitalizations Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Jane Brock, MD, MSPH; Jason Mitchell, MS; Kimberly Irby, MPH; et al.
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):381-391. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.216607

Brock and coauthors report on a quality improvement initiative by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve care transitions for patients with Medicare fee-for-service insurance and analyze whether the initiative reduced rehospitalizations and hospitalizations in geographic communities.

Editorial

A Requirement to Reduce Readmissions: Take Care of the Patient, Not Just the Disease

Mark V. Williams, MD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):394-396. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.233964

Pediatric Readmissions as a Hospital Quality Measure

Rajendu Srivastava, MD, FRCPC, MPH; Ron Keren, MD, MPH
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):396-398. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.217006

Revisiting Hospital Readmissions

Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, MBA; Robert A. McNutt, MD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):398-400. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.42
JAMA Clinical Challenge

Clinician's Corner

Hypopigmented Patches on the Skin

Elizabeth Juhas , MD; Joseph C. English III, MD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):392-393. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.211717
Medical News & Perspectives

Emergency Department Imaging Concerns Raised for Academic Medical Centers

Mike Mitka, MSJ
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):329-330. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.176931

Researchers Seek New Ways to Counter the Harmful Toll of Stress on the Brain

M. J. Friedrich
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):330-332. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.174455
News From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Use of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine for Adults With Immunocompromising Conditions: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

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JAMA. 2013;309(4):334-336. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.31377

Current Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Women of Reproductive Age — 14 Countries, 2008-2010

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JAMA. 2013;309(4):336-338. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.91588

QuickStats: Ten Most Common Chronic Conditions Among Persons Living in Residential Care Facilities—National Survey of Residential Care Facilities, United States, 2010

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JAMA. 2013;309(4):338. doi:
Health Agencies Update

“Bath Salts” Abuse

Bridget M. Kuehn, MSJ
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):333. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.156621

Varenicline Safety Notice

Bridget M. Kuehn, MSJ
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):333. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.16

Microarray Analysis in Stillbirth

Bridget M. Kuehn, MSJ
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):333. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.21

Telaprevir Warning

Bridget M. Kuehn, MSJ
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):333. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.22
Letters

Blood Culture Collection for Suspected Bacteremia

Patrick Eckert, MD; Jamil D. Bayram, MD, MPH; Rodney Omron, MD, MPH
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):339. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.113517

Blood Culture Collection for Suspected Bacteremia—Reply

Bryan Coburn, MD; Andrew M. Morris, MD, SM; Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):339. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.113524

Measures of Adiposity and Fat Distribution and Risk of Diabetes

Norbert Stefan, MD; Fritz Schick, MD, PhD; Hans-Ulrich Häring, MD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):339-340. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.94335

Measures of Adiposity and Fat Distribution and Risk of Diabetes—Reply

Ian J. Neeland, MD; Aslan T. Turer, MD, MHS; James A. de Lemos, MD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):339-340. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.94338

Attending Physicians on Ward Rounds

Robert M. Centor, MD; Analia Castiglioni, MD; Brita Roy, MD, MPH
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):341. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.65887

Attending Physicians on Ward Rounds—Reply

Robert M. Wachter, MD; Abraham C. Verghese, MD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):341. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.65894
Poetry and Medicine

Hands

Margaret Campbell
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):324. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.14132
JAMA Patient Page

Discharge Planning

Denise M. Goodman, MD, MS; Alison E. Burke, MA; Edward H. Livingston, MD
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JAMA. 2013;309(4):406. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.145192
Correction

Incorrect Residual Heparin Amount in: Effect of the Use and Timing of Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cell Delivery on Left Ventricular Function After Acute Myocardial Infarction: The TIME Randomized Trial

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JAMA. 2013;309(4):343. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.196454

Variables Omitted in Box in: Does This Adult Patient With Suspected Bacteremia Require Blood Cultures?

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JAMA. 2013;309(4):343. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.210984
JAMA Masthead

About This Journal

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JAMA. 2013;309(4):311. doi:10.1001/jama.309.4.311
JAMA 100 Years Ago

MEDICAL AMERICA SEEN WITH FOREIGN EYES

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JAMA. 2013;309(4):325. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.145186

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