Efforts to lower hospital admission rates may also reduce readmissions

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 21:51 in Health & Medicine

Public health programs and initiatives that aim to lower hospital admission rates may also reduce readmissions, despite the fact that the patients in communities that have adopted these programs tend to be sicker when hospitalized, says a Yale-led study. The research was published in the July issue of Health Affairs. The federal Centers for Medicare […]

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