Protein-energy undernutrition, indicated by low discharge serum albumin, is a strong independent risk factor for early non-elective hospital readmission in geriatric rehabilitation patients.
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May warrant albumin monitoring at discharge in geriatric rehab; hypothesis-generating for nutritional interventions to reduce readmissions.
Dennis H. Sullivan (1992) studied this question.
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