Specifically, patients in the quartile of hospitals least likely to follow up had a readmission rate of 23.3 percent compared with 20.9 percent for patients in the quartile of hospitals most likely to follow up.
Overall, one-fifth of hospitalized Medicare patients are readmitted within 30 days and more than one-third are readmitted within 90 days.
Read JAMA‘s release on readmissions.
