{"id":2079,"date":"2020-11-09T12:31:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2020-11-10T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:33:24","slug":"characteristics-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-discharged-and-experiencing-same-hospital-readmission-united-states-march-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/09\/characteristics-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-discharged-and-experiencing-same-hospital-readmission-united-states-march-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Characteristics of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Discharged and Experiencing Same-Hospital Readmission \u2014 United States, March\u2013August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among 106,543 patients discharged after hospitalization for COVID-19 in the US between March\u2013July 2020, 9,504 (9%) experienced at least one readmission to the same hospital within 2 months of discharge, including 1,667 (2%) who were readmitted more than once. The median interval from discharge to first readmission was 8 days (IQR 3\u201320 days).\u00a0Risk factors for readmission included white race, age \u226565 years, presence of certain chronic conditions, hospitalization within 3 months preceding initial hospitalization, and discharge to a skilled nursing facility or with home health care.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Lavery et al. (Nov 9, 2020). Characteristics of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Discharged and Experiencing Same-Hospital Readmission \u2014 United States, March\u2013August 2020. MMWR. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6945e2\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6945e2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 106,543 patients discharged after hospitalization for COVID-19 in the US between March\u2013July 2020, 9,504 (9%) experienced at least one readmission to the same hospital within 2 months of discharge, including 1,667 (2%) who were readmitted more than once. The median interval from discharge to first readmission was 8 days (IQR 3\u201320 days).\u00a0Risk factors for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/09\/characteristics-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-discharged-and-experiencing-same-hospital-readmission-united-states-march-august-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}