Population
10,359 consecutive admissions discharged from the general medicine service at an urban 550-bed tertiary care…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 days
Authors
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Supports readmission risk stratification in general medicine; leaves open whether targeting identified factors reduces rates.
In general medicine patients, 30-day readmission is common (17.0%) and driven by specific clinical and sociodemographic factors including black race, certain medications, and comorbidities like heart failure.
Allaudeen et al. (2010) studied this question.
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