New model predicts hospital readmission risk

Preventing avoidable readmissions could result in improved patient care and significant cost savings. In a new model developed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, researchers help clinicians identify which medical patients are at the greatest risk for potentially avoidable hospital readmissions so extra steps can be taken to keep those patients healthy and out of the hospital. The model is published in the March 25, 2013 online edition of JAMA Internal Medicine.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/baw…