Expensive hospital readmissions linked to health-care-associated infections
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
New research finds a strong link between healthcare-associated infections and patient readmission after an initial hospital stay. The findings suggest that reducing such infections could help reduce readmissions, considered to be a major driver of unnecessary healthcare spending and increased patient morbidity and mortality.
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