Hospital readmission rates misleading, study finds

Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 09:01 in Health & Medicine

A high hospital readmission rate now can result in reduced Medicare reimbursements. But a study of spine surgery patients found that the standard method used to calculate readmission rates is a misleading indicator of hospital quality.

Read the whole article on Science Daily

More from Science Daily

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net