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Karen E. Joynt Maddox
Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis
Publications - 189
Citations - 4143
Karen E. Joynt Maddox is an academic researcher from Washington University in St. Louis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Medicaid. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 129 publications receiving 2110 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen E. Joynt Maddox include Harvard University & Saint Louis University.
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Variation in COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Deaths Across New York City Boroughs.
Rishi K. Wadhera,Priya Wadhera,Prakriti Gaba,Jose F. Figueroa,Karen E. Joynt Maddox,Robert W. Yeh,Changyu Shen +6 more
TL;DR: This study describes demographic characteristics and hospital bed capacities of the 5 New York City boroughs, and evaluates whether differences in testing for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), hospitalizations, and deaths have emerged as a signal of racial, ethnic, and financial disparities.
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Association of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, and Pneumonia.
Rishi K. Wadhera,Rishi K. Wadhera,Karen E. Joynt Maddox,Jason H. Wasfy,Sebastien Haneuse,Changyu Shen,Robert W. Yeh +6 more
TL;DR: Among Medicare beneficiaries, the HRRP was significantly associated with an increase in 30-day postdischarge mortality after hospitalization for HF and pneumonia, but not for AMI.
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Two-year evaluation of mandatory bundled payments for joint replacement
Michael L. Barnett,Andrew D. Wilcock,J. Michael McWilliams,Arnold M. Epstein,Karen E. Joynt Maddox,E. John Orav,David C. Grabowski,Ateev Mehrotra +7 more
TL;DR: There was a modest reduction in spending per hip‐ or knee‐replacement episode, without an increase in rates of complications, in the first 2 years of bundled payments in the CJR program.
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Adjusting for social risk factors impacts performance and penalties in the hospital readmissions reduction program
Karen E. Joynt Maddox,Mat Reidhead,Jianhui Hu,Amy J.H. Kind,Alan M. Zaslavsky,Elna M. Nagasako,David R. Nerenz +6 more
TL;DR: Accounting for social risk factors can have a major financial impact on safety-net hospitals, and adjustment for these factors could reduce negative unintended consequences of the HRRP.
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Call to Action: Rural Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.
Robert A. Harrington,Robert M. Califf,Appathurai Balamurugan,Nancy J. Brown,Regina M. Benjamin,Wendy E. Braund,Janie Hipp,Madeleine Konig,Eduardo Sanchez,Karen E. Joynt Maddox +9 more
TL;DR: This presidential advisory serves as a call to action for the American Heart Association and other stakeholders to make rural populations a priority in programming, research, and policy and proposes a set of solutions spanning health system innovation, policy, and research aimed at improving rural health.