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SAS Code for Zip Code Overlap

Resources

CMS Targets Readmission through Payment, Audits; 'Coaching' Model Reduces Rates

Critical Care Use During the Course of Serious Illness

Brief review of this article

Dartmouth Atlas

www.dartmouthatlas.org

End Of Life Care (brief overview of several articles on this subject)

Hospice

Mortality Prediction Tools

Brief review on this topic including several links

Nurse-Physician Perspectives on the Care of Dying Patients in Intensive Care Units

Brief review of this article

Palliative Care

Physician's Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding Inappropriate Admissions and Resource Allocation in the Intensive Care Setting

Brief review of this article

Quality Improvement Organizations involved in Project

Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Guidelines for ICU Admission, Discharge and Triage (1999)

Brief review of this document including relevance to this project

The Colorado Foundation for Medical Care (CFMC), the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Colorado, prepared this material under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents do not necessarily reflect CMS Policy.

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