Thirty-Day Readmissions Among HIV-Infected Individuals at a Safety-Net Hospital: Predictors and Preventability
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Readmissions at a Public Safety Net Hospital
OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine factors related to avoidability of 30-day readmissions at our public, safety net hospital in the United States (US). METHODS We prospectively reviewed medical records of adult internal medicine patients with scheduled and unscheduled 30-day readmissions. We also interviewed patients if they were available. An independent panel used pre-specified, objective crit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Forum Infectious Diseases
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2328-8957
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw172.1043