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Table 3 Association of Outpatient Clinic Visits and Hospital Readmissions

From: Roles of disease severity and post-discharge outpatient visits as predictors of hospital readmissions

 

No ED/UCC/Clinic visits

(N = 26,568)

ED/UCC visits only

(N = 6742)

Clinic visits only

(N = 16,131)

Both ED /UCC and Clinic visits

(N = 6091)

No Readmission (N = 49,521)

26,256 (47.3 %)

3047 (5.5 %)

16,033 (28.9 %)

4185 (7.5 %)

Readmission from ED/UCC (N = 5381)

0

3695 (6.7 %)

0

1686 (3.0 %)

Readmission from Clinics (N = 318)

0

0

98 (0.2 %)

220 (0.4 %)

Readmission from others (N = 312)

312 (0.6 %)

0

0

0

  1. Clinics: any outpatient visits within the first 30 days from index hospital discharge. Others: unknown readmission service or readmitted to other hospitals
  2. ED/UCC Emergency Department or Urgent Care Center
  3. The percentage in this table reflects the events/total 55,532 admissions P < 0.001