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Overall hospital admission rates in US linked with high rates of readmission

Published in Elder Law Weekly, December 28th, 2011

2011 DEC 28 -- High hospital readmission rates in different regions of the U.S. may have more to do with the overall high use of hospital services in those regions than with the severity of patients' particular conditions or problems in the quality of care during and after hospital discharges, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

The study appears in the December 15, 2011 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

"This is a very important observation that has been largely unrecognized in the literature or by policy makers," said study lead author Arnold Epstein, John H. Foster Professor...

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Source: Elder Law Weekly (2011-12-28)

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