Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program uses 30-day mortality rates for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia to evaluate US hospitals, but does not account for neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage when comparing their performance.

Objective

To determine if neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with worse 30-day mortality rates after a hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), or pneumonia in the USA, as well as within the subset of counties with a high proportion of Black individuals.

Design and participants

This retrospective, population-based study included all Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65 years or older hospitalized f

SUBMITTER: Hermes Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198133 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature