Report Sees Revolving Door of Patients Returning to...

February 13, 2013 - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has released a report showing that one in eight Medicare patients were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being released after surgery in 2010, while patients in the hospital for reasons other than surgery returned at an even higher rate of one in six. Both rates were virtually unchanged from 2008.

Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - February 22, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news