Assessing 'first visits' by physicians to Medicare patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities Research brief (Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics) Ryskina, Kira L., author. Yuan, Yihao, author. Teng, Shelly, author. Burke, Robert, author. Patient Discharge Physicians Skilled Nursing Facilities Subacute Care -- methods In this study of postacute care, more than 10% of Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) stays included no visit from a physician or advanced practitioner. Of stays with visits, about half of initial assessments occurred within a day of admission, and nearly 80% occurred within four days. Patients who did not receive a visit from a physician or advanced practitioner were nearly twice as likely to be readmitted to a hospital (28%) or to die (14%) within 30 days of SNF admission than patients who had an initial visit. Philadelphia, PA : Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, 2019 Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations Portraits 1 online resource (1 PDF file (2 unnumbered pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101750226-pdf 101750226 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101750226 English United States 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