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Ziad Obermeyer

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Obermeyer, Ziad, et al. "Early Death After Discharge from Emergency Departments: Analysis of National US Insurance Claims Data." BMJ : British Medical Journal (Online), vol. 356, 2017. Research Library. Ziad Obermeyer conducted a study showing the number of deaths after being released from a hospital. Obermeyer's study was on Medicare patients from 2007-12. He conducted his research on healthy looking people living in the community. The ones he excluded from his experiment were patients that were having to stay in a nursing home and/or being given hospice care. Once they are released from a hospital generally healthy, some of them die seven days later, some sooner and some later. Obermeyer then studies their death certificates and determines

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