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Healthcare News: JAMA publishes 30-day readmission data for adult and pediatric patients

Thirty-day readmissions for heart failure, heart attack, and pneumonia occur most frequently for reasons other than the cause of the initial hospitalization, according to a study published in the January 23 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

 

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