Risk Stratification for Return Emergency Department Visits Among High-Risk Patients
ByKatherine E.M. Miller, MSPH,Wei Duan-Porter, MD, PhD,Karen M. Stechuchak, MS,Elizabeth Mahanna, MPH,Cynthia J. Coffman, PhD,Morris Weinberger, PhD,Courtney Harold Van Houtven, PhD,Eugene Z. Oddone, MD, MHSc,Katina Morris, MS,Kenneth E. Schmader, MD,Cristina C. Hendrix, DNS, GNP-BC,Chad Kessler, MD,Susan Nicole Hastings, MD, MHSc
The authors examined 2 high-risk classification methods to compare and contrast the patient populations, and to identify the preferred method for predicting subsequent emergency department visits.