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SUBMITTER: Leppin AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4249925 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Leppin Aaron L AL Gionfriddo Michael R MR Kessler Maya M Brito Juan Pablo JP Mair Frances S FS Gallacher Katie K Wang Zhen Z Erwin Patricia J PJ Sylvester Tanya T Boehmer Kasey K Ting Henry H HH Murad M Hassan MH Shippee Nathan D ND Montori Victor M VM
JAMA internal medicine 20140701 7
<h4>Importance</h4>Reducing early (<30 days) hospital readmissions is a policy priority aimed at improving health care quality. The cumulative complexity model conceptualizes patient context. It predicts that highly supportive discharge interventions will enhance patient capacity to enact burdensome self-care and avoid readmissions.<h4>Objective</h4>To synthesize the evidence of the efficacy of interventions to reduce early hospital readmissions and identify intervention features--including thei ...[more]