Study Finds Hospital Readmissions Greatly Underestimated

Study Finds Readmissions Greatly Underestimated

90 Days Tells Better Story Than 30 When Tracking Outcomes

by Christina Frangou

Hospital readmissions are common and costly, and for those reasons, they have been in the crosshairs of health policy analysts for years.

Now, researchers from Johns Hopkins have taken a new approach to studying this old problem and found hospital readmission rates after major surgical procedures may be widely underestimated.