Higher Volume, Better Odds (IMAGE)

Brown University

Higher Volume, Better Odds

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Researchers sorted more than 15,000 skilled nursing facilities into deciles (x-axis). The more hip fracture cases a facility handled, the higher the odds were of a patient returning to the community within 30 days.

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Pedro Gozalo/Brown University

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