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Study: Patients Who Refuse HH Rehospitalized More

Published on Fri May 26, 2017

If you want to encourage referrals from hospital sources, you can use a new study to do so. “When patients who have been discharged from inpatient care refuse home health care services, they may experience higher rates of readmission to the hospital and a lower quality of life,” found a report from the United Hospital Fund and the Alliance for [...]
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