Hospital Readmissions Among Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis
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Hospital Readmissions for Decompensated Cirrhosis
Scope of the Problem In all disease states, early hospital readmissions are increasingly being viewed as a public health threat. Among the Medicare population, 19% of those discharged from an acute-care hospital are readmitted within 1 month, at a cost of> $17 billion, which represents nearly 20% of the Medicare budget. Patients discharged after a hospitalization for decompensated cirrhosis hav...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0002-9270
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2011.314