Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
JAMA. 2019 Aug 13;322(6):574-576. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.8594.
This study uses Medicare billing codes to characterize trends in readmission and mortality rates for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with pulmonary embolism (PE) between 1999 and 2015 to assess changes accompanying recent diagnostic and therapeutic changes in management of the disease.
这项研究利用医疗保险计费代码,描述了 1999 年至 2015 年间,医疗保险按服务收费受益人与肺栓塞(PE)相关的再入院率和死亡率趋势,以评估伴随疾病管理中最近诊断和治疗变化而来的变化。