Meeting
Abstract Number: 272
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Discharges against medical advice (AMA) account for 0.8-2.2% of all national discharges and represents an extreme in non-compliance. Patients who elect to leave AMA have increased rates of mortality, morbidity and readmission rates. Literature on this topic, to date, has focused on AMA in the context of specific admitting diagnoses or discharges from certain […]