Top BLOG Post 3-17-2009
Here is our Top Blog Post for today, brought to you by MedReader:
- Timing of Hospital Discharge A Predictor of Readmission
“Patients and their families often do not want to be hospitalized over a weekend; Hospital staff does not want to keep patients over a weekend. But, could the push out the hospital door have serious implications for patient morbidity and mortality? Several studies have shown that the timing of hospital discharge is an indicator of death or readmission in many patients.”
Read this blog in its entirety to grasp the discussion on early discharge being a predictor for readmission to the hospital. This blog states that early discharge may be a factor in readmission; however, the literature on this is very contradictory despite the facts quoted in this blog.
