hospital re-admissions

Teaching hospitals less likely to see 30-day readmissions for stroke patients

By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Although re-admissions have fallen by 3 percent, patients discharged from non-teaching hospitals faced a significantly higher risk of readmission. Stroke patients appear to receive better care at teaching hospitals with less of a chance of landing back in a hospital during the early stages of recovery, according to new research from…

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