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Frequency of LVAD procedure codes in the AMI and HF readmission cohorts A: Frequency of LVAD procedure codes in the AMI readmission cohorts
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Background: Concern has been raised about consequences of including patients with left ventricular assist device (LVAD) or heart transplantation (HT) in readmission and mortality measures.
Methods: We calculated unadjusted and hospital-specific 30-day risk-standardized mortality (RSMR) and readmission (RSRR) rates for all Medicare fee-for-service b...
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... HF readmissions and mortality cohorts most frequently used ICD-9CM codes that correspond to placement of implanted semi-permanent or permanent LVADs at 78.0% and 73.8%, respectively. See Table 1 for frequency of ICD-9CM code utilization for AMI and HF mortality and readmission cohorts. . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. ...Similar publications
Background
Concern has been raised about consequences of including patients with left ventricular assist device (LVAD) or heart transplantation in readmission and mortality measures.
Methods
We calculated unadjusted and hospital-specific 30-day risk-standardized mortality (RSMR) and readmission (RSRR) rates for all Medicare fee-for-service benefic...
