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Researchers with CMS found less than 1% of patients getting acute care at home suffered an unexpected death.
More health systems are offering acute care to patients outside of hospitals, and a new analysis finds a low mortality rate in those programs.
Researchers with the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services examined hospital-at-home programs and found only a small number of patients suffered unexpected deaths, according to a research letter published in Jama Network Open on Nov. 3.
Researchers looked at outcomes from November 25, 2021 through March 20, 2023. In an examination of data involving 11,159 patients, only 38 patients, or 0.34% of the patients, suffered unexpected deaths, researchers said. The authors defined unexpected deaths as “a patient death...
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