There and back again: analyzing the effect of outpatient readmission on the quality of life of patients attending a rheumatology clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of "outpatient readmissions" on the health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) of outpatients from a rheumatology clinic, meaning the effect of the patient's return to the outpatient clinic after having received care and been discharged.

Methods

We conducted an observational longitudinal retrospective study, with patients selected from the Hospital Clínico San Carlos Musculoskeletal cohort, based on having received at least one discharge from the outpatient clinic and having returned (readmission) at least once after the discharge. The main outcomes were the patients' baseline HR-QoL (measured on the first visit of each episode) and the ΔHR-QoL (difference between the HR-QoL in the last and the first visit of each episode). Su

SUBMITTER: Madrid-Garcia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8326638 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature