Prevalence of hospital readmissions and related factors in patients with autoimmune diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Autoimmune diseases generate an impact on the morbidity and mortality of patients and are a burden for the health system through hospital admissions and readmissions. The prevalence of readmission of patients with these diseases has not yet been described as a group, but rather as sub-phenotype. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of hospital readmissions in a Colombian population with autoimmunity and the factors related to readmission.

Methods

All patients with autoimmune diseases who were evaluated by the rheumatology service and hospitalized between August 2018 and December 2019 at the Fundación Hospital Infantil Universitario De San José de Bogotá were described. A bivariate analysis was done, and three multivariate logistic regression m

SUBMITTER: Morales-Tisnes T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8450261 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature