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-> SUNY HLTH SCI CTR,DEPT PREVENT MED & COMMUNITY HLTH,BROOKLYN,NY,11203
CUNY,MT SINAI SCH MED,DEPT COMMUNITY MED,NEW YORK,NY
ISL PEER REVIEW ORG,RES DEV & EPIDEMIOL,LAKE SUCCESS,NY,11042
JN: JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH 1994 Vol.19 No.5 pp.307-318
AB: The purpose of this study was to characterize quality of care problems
among Medicare and Medicaid inpatients in New York State. The patients
selected for this study comprised 1991 and 1992 Medicare and all 1992 ->
Medicaid inpatients in whom quality of care problems with actual or
potential adverse effects were found. The patients in this study were
drawn from public, proprietary, voluntary and teaching hospitals.
A total of 1000 quality of care problems with either actual or
potential adverse effects were found in 706 Medicare patients. Two
hundred and seventy-five (275) quality of care problems with actual orTI:
potential adverse effects were found in 154 Medicaid patients.nsion
Premature death occurred in 53 (7.4%) of the 706 Medicare and in 42
(27.2%) of the 154 Medicaid patients. Treatment problems and monitoring
DE failures accounted for the majority of quality of care problems with
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