Patterns of multimorbidity associated with 30-day readmission: a multinational study.
Carole Elodie AubertJeffrey L SchnipperNiklaus FankhauserPedro Marques-VidalJérôme StirnemannAndrew D AuerbachEyal ZimlichmanSunil KripalaniEduard E VasilevskisEdmondo RobinsonJoshua MetlayGrant S FletcherAndreas LimacherJacques DonzéPublished in: BMC public health (2019)
Readmission was associated with the number of chronic diseases or body systems involved and with specific combinations of diseases categories. The number of body systems involved may be a particularly interesting measure of the risk for readmission in multimorbid patients.