Veterans Health Administration discharge telephone follow-up and 30-day hospital readmissions
Healthcare costs have risen from 13.8% in 2000 to 17.9% in 2009 (Gordon, Leiman, Deland, & Pardes, 2014). Poor transitional care has been identified as a cause of the high healthcare costs (Naylor et al., 2013; Obama, 2013). In 2009, the Department of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) impleme...
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University of Iowa
2015
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5940 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7421&context=etd |