Diabetes self-management education has proven to be one of the most effective strategies for helping patients manage their diabetes (Haas, Maryniuk, & Beck, 2014). As a result, Medicare and other major health care plans offer this education to people with diabetes. Yet, the NNDS results for...
Variables evaluated for raking included: age quartiles, sex, race/ethnicity, region, payer, hospital bed size, hospital ownership (government, private non-profit, private investor-owned) and rural/urban status. Bayesian population interpolation The Bayesian population interpolation approach frames post-...
In addition, more than 84% of the patients were hospitalized for medical emergencies. 37.9% of patients were admitted to the Medical ICU and 27.7% were admitted to the Coronary Care Unit. Furthermore, for patient insurance, over 70% of patients were on Medicare. Table 3 also presents the ...