Within 30 days after discharge from a hospital, nearly 40 percent of post-discharge acute care at hospitals is emergency department visits, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study included more than four million adult patients discharged from an acute-care hospital in California, Florida or Nebraska between July 1, 2008 and September 31, 2009.
Click here to read the full story on ED visits post-discharge in Becker’s Hospital Review.
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