Study finds surprisingly high rate of patients readmitted to hospital within a month

Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 07:35 in Health & Medicine

When a patient is discharged from the hospital, just about the last thing he or she wants is to be back in again within the next month. But a new national study has found that's exactly what happens to one out of five Medicare patients, costing billions in health care and suffering for patients...

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