Hospitals Still Struggling to Curtail Readmissions
American hospitals have shown little progress in their efforts to prevent the readmission of Medicare patients, according to a new report by the Dartmouth Atlas.
In After Hospitalization: A Dartmouth Atlas Report on Post-Acute Care for Medicare Beneficiaries, the Dartmouth group examined regional and national trends in Medicare hospital readmissions over a period of five years.
The study, which can be found here, was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
