A significant proportion (25%) of patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia are readmitted within 30 days, highlighting the need for targeted preventive measures.
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High early readmission rates after CAP warrant closer post-discharge scrutiny; hypothesis-generating for targeted interventions, should not yet change practice.
A quarter of patients hospitalised for CAP are readmitted within 30 days; of those, two-thirds are readmitted within 2 weeks. Further research is required to determine whether such readmissions might be preventable through imple menting measures including in-hospital cross-specialty comorbidity management, convalescence in intermediate care, targeted rehabilitation and advanced care planning.
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Chakrabarti et al. (2021) studied this question.
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