Why the study?
Do hospital strategies including discharge and transitional care processes reduce 30-day readmission rates in patients hospitalized with heart failure?
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.
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Should not yet change hospital HF strategies; leaves open whether comprehensive discharge processes reduce readmissions in randomized trials.
Kociol et al. (2012) studied this question.
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