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American Hospital Association (2018). Fast facts on U.S. hospitals [PDF document].
The American Hospital Association provides facts for the public on hospitals in the United States.

American Hospital Association. (2018). Hospitals are economic drivers in their communities [PDF document].
The American Hospital Association stresses the value of community hospitals.

Burke, R. E., Schnipper, J. L., Williams, M. V., Robinson, E. J., Vasilevskis, E. E., Kripalani, S., … Donzé, J. D. (2017). The hospital score predicts potentially preventable 30-day readmissions in conditions targeted by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program [PDF document]. Medical Care, 55(3), 285-290.
Burke et al. examined the readmission of patients with certain medical issues to develop a predictive model to reduce the number of readmissions within 30 days of discharge to meet the threshold for this issue and reduce the financial penalties.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). (2019). Hospital Compare.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid provide public information on the quality of hospitals in the United States. This resource is needed to complete the Week 7 assignment.

Elliott, M. N., Beckett, M. K., Lehrman, W. G., Cleary, P., Cohea, C. W., Giordano, L. A., ... & Damberg, C. L. (2016). Understanding the role played by Medicare’s patient experience points system in hospital reimbursement. Health Affairs, 35(9), 1673-1680.
These authors researched how important patient satisfaction is to the reimbursements made to hospitals and provide their suggestions on how hospitals can improve their patient satisfaction scores.

Freeman, G. A. (2016). How real is healthcare consumerism? Healthcare Leadership Review, 35(6), 1-8.
In an age where information is available at the click of a button or an online search, individuals are becoming more aware of data available to them when seeking healthcare options. Freeman offers a business perspective on consumers.

Hanchate, A. D., Stolzmann, K. L., Rosen, A. K., Fink, A. S., Shwartz, M., Ash, A. S., Abdulkerim, H., Pugh, M., Shokeen, P., & Borzecki, A. (2017). Does adding clinical data to administrative data improve agreement among hospital quality measures?. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 5(3), 112–118.
Hanchate et al. researched whether adding the patient’s clinical information to performance outcome data would inform administrators better.

McIlvennan, C. K., Eapen, Z. J., & Allen, L. A. (2015). Hospital readmissions reduction program. Circulation, 131(20), 1796-1803. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.010270
These authors provide an overview of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program and offered their perspective on the coordination of care between acute- and sub-acute healthcare delivery systems.

Shah, B. (2018). Effectiveness of interprofessional care teams on reducing hospital readmissions in patients with heart failure: A systematic review. MedSurg Nursing, 27(3), 177–185.
Shah reviewed the literature to determine a correlation between the reduction of hospital readmission rates for heart failure and whether the caregivers were part of an interprofessional team.