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Is a higher hospital readmission rate associated with lower 30-day mortality in heart failure patients?
Is a higher hospital readmission rate associated with lower 30-day mortality in heart failure patients?
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Higher hospital readmission rates for heart failure are associated with lower 30-day mortality, suggesting that readmission metrics alone may be confounded by the competing risk of death and do not fully capture quality of care.
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Gorodeski et al. (2010) studied this question.
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