Case Studies

Christopher S. Hollenbeak, PhD, Professor and Department Head of Health Policy and Administration at Pennsylvania State University, and colleagues conducted a statewide analysis using data from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) and authored a study, 30-Day Readmission Following Inpatient Total Shoulder Arthroplasty (TSA) in Pennsylvania.

Irene Headen, PhD, MS, is a Professor of Black Health at the Department of Community Health and Prevention, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. Dr. Headen and her research team used hospitalization data from PHC4 for a study entitled Neighborhood Opportunity & Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Morbidity to evaluate the risk of severe maternal morbidity and postpartum hospital readmission for patients admitted for a delivery.

Dr. Joshua B. Brown is the Samuel P. Harbison Endowed Assistant Professor of Surgery, Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as principal investigator at the university’s Prehospital Resource Organization and Delivery of Care in Trauma Systems (PRODCTS) laboratory. Dr. Brown and his research team used hospitalization data from PHC4 for a study entitled Evaluating the Impact of Pre-Hospital Under-Triage on Injured Patients to compare outcomes between patients who were under-triaged versus those who were appropriately triaged.