Surprisingly High Rate Of Patients Readmitted To Hospital Within A Month
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 02:15
in Health & Medicine
A new national study has found one out of five Medicare patients discharged from the hospital is readmitted within 30 days, costing billions in health care and suffering for patients. The study also found that more than half of those patients appear not to have seen a physician as an outpatient since they were released from the hospital. It indicates a major disconnect between care in the hospital and outside it.