Hospital readmission studies: Influencing factors identified

The risk factors for readmission to the hospital were examined based upon general medicine inpatients and those with at least two admissions in a six-month period in a new study. Alongside clinical factors such as having cancer, chronic diseases such as heart failure or lung disease, or being on high-risk medications, the studies identified other factors which increase the likelihood of a patient being readmitted which could help hospitalists focus in on these groups.

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