Lack of data causes doctors to steer patients to unnecessary post-acute care, experts say

... greater investment is needed to establish meaningful quality measures to evaluate the performance of skilled nursing facilities, the column argues . Without "evidence-based guidelines" about where patients are most likely to thrive, "well-meaning, ...

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