Readmission Of Patients: A Case Study

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When patients get discharged from the hospital, the hope is for them to feel better and move on with their day-to-day life. Most often, these patients get readmitted into the hospital for minor problems that could have been resolved while they were at the hospital. My topic is to decrease readmission of patients after they have been discharged from the hospital. According to Kirsch et al (2015), a study done by Jencks and colleagues reported on the readmission of medical patients, one in every five patients were readmitted within 30 days of discharge. This has questioned the causes of readmission and if effective teaching is done discharge.
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