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Source: Authors’ analysis of Medicare claims from 2009-2014
Notes: Error bars for index admission rates and observed readmission rates indicate 95% CIs that account for clustering within hospital referral regions. Our analysis of admission rates from 2009-2014 included 28,458,493 beneficiary-year observations among 6,733,838 Medicare beneficiaries.
