Strategies that reduce early hospital readmissions
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
30-day readmissions can be reduced by almost 20 percent when specific efforts are taken to prevent them, a review has found. Key among these are interventions to help patients deal with the work passed on to them at discharge. "Effective approaches often are multifaceted and proactively seek to understand the complete patient context, often including in-person visits to the patient's home after discharge," says the lead author.