Interventions to reduce readmissions in chronic conditions should focus on a holistic consideration of all comorbidities, as readmissions are often caused by diseases other than the index hospitalization.
May warrant holistic comorbidity assessment at discharge; hypothesis-generating for trials targeting non-index readmissions in chronic disease.
Readmission in chronic conditions is very common and often caused by diseases other than the index hospitalisation. Interventions to reduce readmissions should therefore focus not only on the primary condition but on a holistic consideration of all the patient's comorbidities.
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