Meeting
Abstract Number: 415
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Studies have shown about 2 million patients are readmitted to hospitals nationwide yearly. Data from the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) estimate the annual cost of readmissions of Medicare patients amounts to billions of dollars annually; about half this cost may be preventable. Hospitals are working to create programs to decrease readmission […]