Do hospital strategies including discharge and transitional care processes reduce 30-day readmission rates in patients hospitalized with heart failure?
Comprehensive discharge and transitional care processes are modestly associated with reduced 30-day heart failure readmissions, whereas most other hospital strategies appear ineffective.
A variety of strategies are used by hospitals in an attempt to improve 30-day readmission rates for patients hospitalized with heart failure. Although more complete discharge and transitional care processes may be modestly associated with lower 30-day readmission rates, most current strategies are not associated with lower readmission rates.
Kociol et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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