Thirty-Day Postdischarge Mortality Among Black and White Patients 65 Years and Older in the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Patient Readmission 100%
• Medicare 89%
• European Continental Ancestry Group 80%
• Mortality 43%
• African Continental Ancestry Group 35%
• Heart Failure 26%
• Pneumonia 23%
• Myocardial Infarction 21%
• Interrupted Time Series Analysis 10%
• Medicaid 8%
• Hospital Mortality 6%
• Population 5%
• Cohort Studies 4%
• Health Care Outcome Assessment 4%
• Health 3%