Do outpatient follow-up visits reduce 30-day all-cause readmissions in patients discharged with heart failure, COPD, myocardial infarction, and stroke?
Outpatient follow-up visits may reduce 30-day readmissions for heart failure and stroke, highlighting the importance of early transitional care, though evidence is lacking for COPD and AMI.
Outpatient follow-up visits are a potentially effective way to reduce 30-day all-cause readmissions for patients discharged with heart failure or stroke, but evidence of benefit was lacking for COPD and we found no studies for assessing AMI. Our results emphasize the importance of study quality.
Bilicki et al. (Thu,) studied this question.