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Decision Support For Reducing 30-Day Readmissions: General Medicine Patients In Community Hospitals, Ramez Labib Ayoub
Decision Support For Reducing 30-Day Readmissions: General Medicine Patients In Community Hospitals, Ramez Labib Ayoub
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Health expenditures in United States have experienced a gradual increase in spending with no indication of slowing down. Addressing this problem has been a major area of concern for policy makers, and as a result more consideration has been placed on decreasing health spending and increasing affordability. One major area recognized as being effective in decreasing these financial burdens has been inpatient thirty-day adult readmissions, currently costing $26 billion annually. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have determined readmissions to be an indicator of the quality and efficiency of patient care.
This research provides a prediction model for patients …