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Hospital System Readmissions: A Care Cycle Approach, Cody Mullen
Hospital System Readmissions: A Care Cycle Approach, Cody Mullen
The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research
Hospital readmission rates can be used as an indicator of the quality of health care services and can highlight high-priority research areas to ensure better health. A readmission is defined as when a patient is discharged from an acute care hospital and is admitted back to an acute care hospital in a set amount of days, with 30 days being the current national standard. On average, 19.6% of Medicare patients are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and 56.1% within a year (Jencks, Williams, & Coleman, 2009). The hypothesis of this study was that the discharge location, …