Meeting
Abstract Number: 315
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Many patients are discharged from the hospital to post-acute rehab in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). These care transitions can be error-prone, hampered by inadequate patient preparation for rehabilitation and insufficient communication between care providers. The readmission rate from SNF was 23.5% in 2006, costing Medicare $4.34 billion. Prior studies show 30% of these […]