Socioeconomics, Access to Care Play Major Role in Readmissions

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Socioeconomics, Access to Care Play Major Role in Readmissions

June 1, 2012

Differences in regional hospital readmission rates for heart failure are more closely linked to the availability of care and patients’ socioeconomic position than to hospital performance or patients’ degree of illness, according to new research presented at...

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