The performance of US hospitals as reflected in risk‐standardized 30‐day mortality and readmission rates for medicare beneficiaries with pneumonia

Hospitalized fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries age 65 years and older who received a principal diagnosis of pneumonia (n=1,118,583 for mortality analysis; n=1,161,817 for readmission analysis) across 4,813 nonfederal acute care hospitals in the United States.

Hospital and regional level risk-standardized 30-day mortality and readmission rateshard clinical