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ICU Discharges Need More HH Therapy, Yale Researchers Say

Published on Fri Feb 28, 2020

Ironically, a new study encourages more home health therapy visits for patients discharged from the ICU, right at the time that the industry’s therapy utilization is in flux. In an analysis of 3,176 patients who stayed in the hospital intensive care unit for at least 24 hours in 2012, researchers found that one-third of Medicare beneficiaries did not receive home [...]
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