Reducing Hospital Readmissions: A PatientBond Case Study
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Reducing Hospital Readmissions
2 Introduction For most patients who leave the hospital, the last thing they want is to return anytime soon. Yet, many Medicare patients discharged from an inpatient stay find themselves back in the hospital within 30 days. Some of these readmissions are planned, and others may be part of the natural course of treatment for specific conditions; but, increasingly, some hospital readmissions are ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Telehealth and Medicine Today
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2471-6960
DOI: 10.30953/tmt.v2.54