What is it about?
Unanticipated hospital readmissions are very stressful for patients and cost the system a lot of money. This study adds to the literature on how to avoid them by looking at the functional status of patients with spinal cord injury.
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Why is it important?
In the US and many other countries, there are financial incentives to avoid hospital readmissions.
Perspectives
At Harvard Medical School, many of our faculty have been working on this issue of avoiding hospital readmissions. Check out other studies by Dr. Jeffrey C. Schneider.
Julie Silver
Harvard Medical School
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This page is a summary of: Functional status predicts acute care readmission in the traumatic spinal cord injury population, Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, March 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10790268.2018.1453436.
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