The association between outpatient follow-up visits and all-cause non-elective 30-day readmissions: A retrospective observational cohort study.

BACKGROUND:As an effort to reduce hospital readmissions, early follow-up visits were recommended by the Society of Hospital Medicine. However, published literature on the effect of follow-up visits is limited with mixed conclusions. Our goal here is to fully explore the relationship between follow-u...

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Main Authors: Liping Tong, Tim Arnold, Jie Yang, Xinyong Tian, Cole Erdmann, Tina Esposito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6049937?pdf=render