Meeting
Abstract Number: 332
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Care transitions expose hospitalized patients to risks of discontinuity of care. Although various forms of care transitions have been widely studied, little is known about inter-hospital transfers (IHT, the transfer of patients between acute care hospitals). We used national Medicare data to examine the frequency of IHT and compare patient characteristics of transferred versus […]