Outpatient Follow-up Visit and 30-Day Emergency Department Visit and Readmission in Patients Hospitalized for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | Zendy

Gulshan Sharma | Zendy; Yong Fang Kuo | Zendy; Jean L. Freeman | Zendy; Dong D. Zhang | Zendy; James S. Goodwin | Zendy

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Outpatient Follow-up Visit and 30-Day Emergency Department Visit and Readmission in Patients Hospitalized for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Author(s) -

Gulshan Sharma,

Yong Fang Kuo,

Jean L. Freeman,

Dong D. Zhang,

James S. Goodwin

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.345

Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonologist , emergency department , copd , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , emergency medicine , confidence interval , retrospective cohort study , logistic regression , cohort , intensive care medicine , psychiatry

Readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are common and costly. We examined the effect of early follow-up visit with patient's primary care physician (PCP) or pulmonologist following acute hospitalization on the 30-day risk of an emergency department (ER) visit and readmission.

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