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Table 2 Occurrences of hospital readmissions (exclusive to the home group), assisted by a Home Care Service. Brazil, 2012–2016

From: Analyses of the effectiveness of a Brazilian pediatric home care service: a preliminary study

Hospital readmissions

Home group (n = 36)

n / %

Patients who never were re-hospitalized

15 / 41.66

Patients re-hospitalized

21 / 58.33

First readmission, between 10 and 30 days after admission to HCS

5 / 23.81

Readmission after 30 days of admission in HCS

16 / 76.19

Readmission after 3 months after admission in HCS

13 / 24.07

Total days in readmission/total days in HCS

930 / 2.91

  1. 55 cases of readmissions for 36 patients included. Average of 11.92 days of readmission for a total of 930 days