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Hilltop and UMB SOM to Develop New Hospital Quality Measure


UMBC’s Hilltop Institute and UMB SOM’s Department of Emergency Medicine to Develop Algorithm to Augment 30-Day All-Cause Readmission Measure

The Hilltop Institute at UMBC, in partnership with the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s (UMB SOM’s) Department of Emergency Medicine, has just received funding to develop and test a measure of hospital quality that assesses hospitals based on the frequency of downstream clinically relevant readmissions (DCRR) as opposed to blanket 30-day all-cause readmissions.

Read the full story here: https://hilltopinstitute.org/bulletin/umbcs-hilltop-institute-and-umb-soms-department-of-emergency-medicine-to-develop-algorithm-to-augment-30-day-all-cause-readmission-measure/

Posted: January 17, 2020, 10:29 AM