Newly released 2014 data from the National Center for Health Statistics on life expectancy showed a worrisome decline in life expectancy for whites in the US, to 78.8 years in 2014 from 78.9 in 2013. The good news is that, in contrast, life expectancy increased by 0.2 years for the Hispanic population (from 81.6 toContinue reading “Fall in life expectancy for white Americans”
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Social determinants of health and pay-for-performance readmissions measures
In an article released by JAMA Pediatrics today, my co-authors and I show that social determinants of health (patient factors such as health insurance, poverty and other sociodemographic measures) are risk factors for readmissions-related penalties for children’s hospitals. Without adjusting pay-for-performance (P4P) measures for social determinants of health (SDH), hospitals may receive penalties partially related to patient SDH factors beyondContinue reading “Social determinants of health and pay-for-performance readmissions measures”
Readmissions revisited
I am reposting a post by Garret Johnson and Zoe Lyon, both research assistants for Dr. Ashish Jha at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (who also has a great post on risk-adjustment for readmissions. The post eloquently explores an issue I’ve visited in a recent post: the importance of understanding the diverseContinue reading “Readmissions revisited”
Marion R. Sills, MD, MPH 