Key result
Discharge summary quality was evaluated for its association with 30-day readmission risk in patients hospitalized with heart failure exacerbation.
Why the study?
Does discharge summary quality affect 30-day readmission risk in patients hospitalized with heart failure exacerbation?
Does discharge summary quality affect 30-day readmission risk in patients hospitalized with heart failure exacerbation?
Discharge summary quality may be associated with 30-day HF readmission; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
We used hierarchical logistic regression models to determine the association between each domain of discharge summary quality and 30-day patient-level readmission risk. We adjusted sequentially for patient-level factors and then hospital characteristics.
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Al‐Damluji et al. (2015) studied this question. Discharge summary quality was evaluated for its association with 30-day readmission risk in patients hospitalized with heart failure exacerbation.
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