Physician visits and 30-day hospital readmissions in patients receiving hemodialysis.

ABSTRACT: A focus of health care reform has been on reducing 30-day hospital readmissions. Patients with ESRD are at high risk for hospital readmission. It is unknown whether more monitoring by outpatient providers can reduce hospital readmissions in patients receiving hemodialysis. In nationally representative cohorts of patients in the United States receiving in-center hemodialysis between 2004 and 2009, we used a quasi-experimental (instrumental variable) approach to assess the relationship between frequency of visits to patients receiving hemodialysis following hospital discharge and the probability of rehospitalization. We then used a multivariable regression model and published hospitalization data to estimate the cost savings and number of hospitalizations that could be prevented annually wit

SUBMITTER: Erickson KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4147977 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature