Are postdischarge environmental and socioeconomic factors associated with early hospital readmission in community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries?
Postdischarge environmental and socioeconomic factors are associated with early hospital readmission, suggesting that targeted discharge planning and home health services may help avert these events.
These findings suggest that PDE and SES factors are associated with early readmission. Considering these findings may enhance the targeting of pre-discharge and postdischarge interventions to avert early readmission. Such interventions may include home health services, patient activation, and comprehensive discharge planning.
Arbaje et al. (2008) studied this question.
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