Pondering Preventability: Readmissions and Catheter-Associated UTI - podcast episode cover

Pondering Preventability: Readmissions and Catheter-Associated UTI

Jun 19, 201634 min
--:--
--:--
Download Metacast podcast app
Listen to this episode in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episode description

Send us a text

This week, Amol and Kieran discuss two studies: How can we prevent readmission? An observational study of 1000 general internal medicine patients from 12 United States academic medical centres found that 26.9% of readmissions were potentially preventable. Key factors associated with potential preventability included decision making in the emergency department, lack of information to outpatient ...

The post Pondering Preventability: Readmissions and Catheter-Associated UTI appeared first on Healthy Debate.

For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android