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

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

doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2010.345

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

Published in Archives of Internal Medicine • Oct 11, 2010

Authors:

Gulshan Sharma

Yong Fang Kuo

Jean L. Freeman

Abstract

BACKGROUND: 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...

Subject

Medicine

Pulmonologist

Emergency department

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