Most U.S. hospitals are scrambling to reduce readmissions for heart failure and heart attack as financial disincentives go into effect this fall, but efforts aren't always targeting recommended methods, a survey found.
Almost 90% of the 537 centers surveyed said they had a written objective of reducing preventable readmissions for heart failure and acute myocardial infarction (MI), according to Elizabeth H. Bradley, PhD, of Yale, and colleagues.
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