Lower Mortality Rates in Elderly Readmitted to Hospital Where Surgery was Performed Rather than Alternate Hospital

March 18, 2015 at 11:31 AM Leave a comment


2014 12 30 Elderly Readmit Mortality Chart

Source 1: Rapaport, L. (2014, December 8). Problems at home after surgery? Go back to same hospital, study says. Retrieved March 15, 2015.

Source 2: Tsai, MD, MPH, T., Orav, PhD, E., & Jha, MD, MPH, A. (2014). Care Fragmentation in the Postdischarge Period Surgical Readmission. Journal of the American Medical Association. Retrieved March 16, 2015.

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