Contribution of social factors to readmissions within 30 days after hospitalization for COPD exacerbation.
Tadahiro GotoKazuki YoshidaMohammad Kamal FaridiCarlos A CamargoKohei HasegawaPublished in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2020)
In a nationally-representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for COPD, we found that the addition of social factors improved the predictive ability for readmissions when early and late readmissions were examined separately.