The Variations in Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and Medicaid Mortality and Preventable Readmissions: A Master's Thesis to Evaluate Mortality and Readmissions as a quality of care indicator. - Softcover

Castro, Lyndon Troy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1453830634 ISBN 13: 9781453830635

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

For this study, 169,397 hospital cases from the 1991 California Office of Statewide Health and Planning and Development Discharge Data Set were randomly sampled. This sample represented 50% of all 1991 hospitalization cases from hospitals in the state of California. The sampled cases were analyzed by payer type to determine whether statistically significant differences in preventable readmissions and deaths were evident. The data were controlled by race, type of diagnosis, number of diagnoses, and gender.

About this title

About the Author:

yndon T. Castro, Dr.P.H, Ms.HSA, FHFMA, RHU, CHFP, is an independent author and researcher of practical, relevant, and substantive healthcare issues. He is also the CEO of a technology start-up organization that manufactures and distributes advanced solar system technologies.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1453830634
• ISBN 13: 9781453830635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144