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Discharge home health services referral and 30-day all-cause readmission in older adults with heart failure

INTRODUCTION: Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospital readmission. Medicare home health services provide intermittent skilled nursing care to homebound Medicare beneficiaries. We examined whether discharge home health referral is associated with a lower risk of 30-day all-cause readmissi...

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Autores principales: Arundel, Cherinne, Sheriff, Helen, Bearden, Donna M., Morgan, Charity J., Heidenreich, Paul A., Fonarow, Gregg C., Butler, Javed, Allman, Richard M., Ahmed, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6111362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30154880
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2018.77562