A Comparison of Free-Standing versus Co-Located Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals

Long-term acute care hospitals (LTACs) provide specialized treatment for patients with chronic critical illness. Increasingly LTACs are co-located within traditional short-stay hospitals rather than operated as free-standing facilities, which may affect LTAC utilization patterns and outcomes. We com...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 10; no. 10; p. e0139742
Main Authors:	Kahn, Jeremy M., Barnato, Amber E., Lave, Judith R., Pike, Francis, Weissfeld, Lisa A., Le, Tri Q., Angus, Derek C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 06.10.2015 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Bivariate analysis Care and treatment Collaboration Costs Critical care Critically ill persons Demographic aspects Government programs Health care Health Care Costs Health care expenditures Health care policy Hospital Mortality Hospitalization - economics Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Hospitals Hospitals, Private Humans Illnesses Intensive care Length of Stay - economics Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data Long term care facilities Medicaid Medical care utilization Medicare Medicine Mortality Patient Readmission - economics Patient Readmission - statistics & numerical data Patient Transfer - economics Patient Transfer - statistics & numerical data Patients Public health Regression analysis Services United States Ventilators Weaning United States Washington DC Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States > US Pennsylvania
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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