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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Care Manag Sci. 2015 Sep 15;20(1):94–104. doi: 10.1007/s10729-015-9339-x

Table 1.

Risk-adjusted hospital readmission rates of medicare beneficiaries in rural health clinics by state, 2007 through 2013

State 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Alabama Mean 19.59 % 19.79 % 19.46 % 19.54 % 19.36 % 18.70 % 18.29 %
N 46 49 49 47 46 43 38
SD 1.15 % 1.26 % 1.06 % 1.18 % 0.97 % 1.00 % 1.06 %
Florida Mean 19.36 % 19.40 % 19.01 % 19.22 % 18.97 % 18.35 % 17.79 %
N 85 82 79 78 80 78 75
SD 1.13 % 1.70 % 0.99 % 1.12 % 1.09 % 1.17 % 1.16 %
Georgia Mean 19.12 % 19.39 % 19.11 % 19.05 % 19.11 % 18.25 % 17.71 %
N 62 63 60 58 57 55 54
SD 1.03 % 0.98 % 1.04 % 1.15 % 0.98 % 1.08 % 1.22 %
Kentucky Mean 19.85 % 19.70 % 19.45 % 19.25 % 19.63 % 18.63 % 18.00 %
N 103 106 107 108 107 100 94
SD 1.08 % 1.00 % 1.13 % 1.01 % 1.72 % 1.04 % 1.40 %
Mississippi Mean 20.66 % 20.42 % 20.22 % 20.02 % 19.62 % 19.34 % 18.30 %
N 113 119 116 111 109 104 98
SD 1.83 % 1.76 % 1.76 % 1.69 % 1.88 % 1.91 % 1.75 %
North Carolina Mean 19.15 % 19.65 % 19.15 % 18.89 % 18.78 % 18.15 % 17.37 %
N 73 72 72 66 65 61 52
SD 0.78 % 0.96 % 0.86 % 0.87 % 0.80 % 0.83 % 0.77 %
South Carolina Mean 19.72 % 19.86 % 19.58 % 19.61 % 19.65 % 18.96 % 18.17 %
N 60 60 61 60 60 57 54
SD 0.80 % 0.84 % 1.00 % 0.83 % 1.01 % 0.84 % 0.92 %
Tennessee Mean 19.79 % 19.75 % 19.54 % 19.20 % 19.50 % 18.49 % 18.57 %
N 39 40 40 39 38 37 34
SD 1.00 % 0.81 % 1.15 % 1.08 % 1.15 % 1.17 % 2.42 %
F-value 15.392* 6.238* 9.564* 7.734* 4.455* 7.971* 3.822*
Significance 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 581 591 584 567 562 535 499

N number of rural health clinics, SD standard deviation

*

Statistically significant at 0.05 or lower level