… Current readmission policy does not adequately account for patient sociodemographic …
, advocate towards policy changes, or develop interventions so they reflect a patient’s whole …

… leading cause of death [2] and accounts for significant health services use [3, 4]. About one
in five patients discharged from hospital for COPD gets readmitted within 30 days [5–8] with a …

… after accounting for a range of patient and service factors, we were not able to adjust for case
… Public reporting of hospital readmission proportions was introduced in England in 2001, …

… UNPLANNED HOSPITAL readmissions are associated with … models, accounting for
socioeconomic factors may be … primarily serve patients with low socioeconomic status by half…

… We assume that low socioeconomic status among patients … short-term hospital readmissions
for chronic diseases must … into account the entire social situation of chronically ill patients, …

… community factors may relate to hospital readmission rates [23]. … ; health behaviors; social
and economic factors; and physical … variables most accounting for this variation, many could be …

… In addition, we calculated readmission rates at 15 days to … ’ postcode of residence, which
could not take into account … we could not exclude a change in behaviors during that time. …

… account for clustering of individual‐level SES within neighborhood … Nonetheless, research
shows that SES does not change … Therefore, we could not disentangle the contributions of race…

… for this study were hospital readmissions after 30 and 90 days … The outcome of total charges
was log-transformed to account … postoperative outcome, this may not affect clinical practice. …

… in Medicare data to account for known limitations of Medicare … Variations in geography did
not change the persistence of … for dual-eligible patients within the CMS Hospital Readmissions …