Preventable hospitalizations and socioeconomic status.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Blustein, Jan; Hanson, Karla; Shea, Steven
- Source
- Health Affairs. Mar/Apr1998, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p177. 13p. 3 Charts.
- Subject
- *HOSPITAL patients
*MEDICARE
*HEALTH planning
- Language
- ISSN
- 0278-2715
Focuses on the use of preventable hospitalizations as a possible indicator of poor health plan performance, while highlighting a study conducted on elderly Medicare beneficiaries. What findings of studies indicate; Methodology used to conduct study; Identification of some of the preventable hospitalization cases encountered.