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- Title
Managed Care, Hospital Characteristics, and Inpatient Utilization for Sickle Cell Disease Patients.
- Authors
Lewit, Eugene; Thirumalai, Kavita; Wang, C. Jason
- Abstract
The article offers a report on the study of impact of managed care, hospital characteristics, and inpatient utilization for sickle cell disease patients. Topics discussed include diagnoses of sickle cell disease in California in 2013; result of the study was based on outcome measures include annual number of admissions (ADM) and mean-adjusted length of stay (LOS) per patient; and discussion on improved access and quality of care for people with disabilities in Medicaid managed care.
- Subjects
MANAGED care programs; SICKLE cell anemia diagnosis; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; INPATIENT care; MEDICAL care
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2018, Vol 33, Issue 12, p2053
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-018-4630-4