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Post-hospitalization dialysis facility processes of care and hospital readmissions among hemodialysis patients: a retrospective cohort study.

Laura C PlantingaTahsin MasudJanice P LeaJohn M BurkartChristopher M O'DonnellBernard G Jaar
Published in: BMC nephrology (2018)
Our results suggest that some interventions performed at the dialysis facility in the post-hospitalization period may be associated with reduced readmission risk, while others may provide a potential existing means of identifying patients at higher risk for readmissions, to whom such interventions could be efficiently targeted.
Keyphrases
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