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by aub3bhat 3632 days ago
Figure 6. Medicare 30-Day, All-Condition Hospital Readmission Rate, is plotted with Y-Axis not starting from zero, which makes it look like there was a dramatic decrease.

Having studied readmission rates, I was amazed, only to be disappointed as I looked at the Y-axis.
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jlmorton 3632 days ago
It will be nice to confirm this over the next several years, but as of now, and despite the misleading graph, it still looks to be a pretty amazing achievement.
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aub3bhat 3632 days ago
No doubt about that.
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Eldandan 3632 days ago
Gonna show this to my stats students and see if they can identify why it is misleading.
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