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SUBMITTER: Harhay MN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5924427 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Harhay Meera Nair MN Jia Yaqi Y Thiessen-Philbrook Heather H Besharatian Behdad B Gumber Ramnika R Weng Francis L FL Hall Isaac E IE Doshi Mona M Schroppel Bernd B Parikh Chirag R CR Reese Peter P PP
Clinical transplantation 20180303 4
<h4>Background</h4>Kidney transplant (KT) recipients experience high rates of early (≤30 days) hospital readmission (EHR) after KT, and existing studies provide limited data on modifiable discharge factors that may mitigate EHR risk.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a retrospective cohort study of 468 adult deceased donor KT recipients transplanted between 4/2010 and 11/2013 at 5 United States transplant centers. We fit multivariable mixed effects models to assess the association of two potentially m ...[more]