Evaluating readmission rates: How can we improve?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1079-1083

  Cakir, Beril ^a   Gammon, Gary ^a  

^a Gaston Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

discharge planning; hospitalist; readmission rates

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78549249751     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181f20a0f     Document Type: Article

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