Evaluating How Safety-Net Hospitals Are Identified: Systematic Review and Recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To systematically review how safety-net hospitals' status is identified and defined, discuss current definitions' limitations, and provide recommendations for a new classification and evaluation framework.

Data sources

Safety-net hospital-related studies in the MEDLINE database published before May 16, 2019.

Study design

Systematic review of the literature that adheres to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.

Data collection/extraction methods

We followed standard selection protocol, whereby studies went through an abstract review followed by a full-text screening for eligibility. For each included study, we extracted information about the identification method itself, including the operational definit

SUBMITTER: Powell WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9081065 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature