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. 2019 Dec 30;180(3):385–394. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.6130

Figure 2. Hospital Transfer Rates for Potentially Avoidable Conditions by Cohort Year .

Figure 2.

CHF indicates congestive heart failure; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and UTI, urinary tract infection.

aCohort year refers to the calendar year of the inception cohort constructed for each advanced illness using Minimum Data Set assessments from 2011 to 2016. Medicare data from 2011 to 2017 were used to identify transfers occurring within 12 months of meeting the criteria for advanced illness for each cohort. Thus, person-time and transfers were assessed for up to 12 months and spanned 2 calendar years (eg, for the 2016 cohort, transfers were assessed in both 2016 and 2017).