
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>Medicare Advantage health care utilization : observation stays : trends in Medicare Advantage outpatient observation stays</dc:title>
  <dc:title>Data brief (Health Care Cost Institute)</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Barrette, Kevin, author.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>McGraves-Lloyd, Katharine, author.</dc:creator>
  <dc:subject>Health Services -- statistics &amp; numerical data</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Hospitalization -- statistics &amp; numerical data</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Hospitalization -- trends</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Length of Stay -- statistics &amp; numerical data</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Medicare Part C -- statistics &amp; numerical data</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Outpatients</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>KEY FINDINGS. Use of observation stays increased from 2010 through 2014. Similar increases occurred in overall use and within 30 days of a hospitalization. The percent of multiple day stays and the average length of stay was constant over time. Approximately 21% of observation stays spanned more than one day with an average length of stay of 1.55 nights.</dc:description>
  <dc:publisher>Washington, DC, : Health Care Cost Institute, December 2016</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Health Care Cost Institute, issuing body.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:type>Technical Report</dc:type>
  <dc:format>Text</dc:format>
  <dc:format>1 online resource (1 PDF file (4 pages)).</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>nlm:nlmuid-101711628-pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>101711628</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101711628</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>English</dc:language>
  <dc:coverage>United States</dc:coverage>
  <dc:rights>Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</dc:rights>
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