Fig. 1

Note: Adjusted revisit rates based on logistic regressions models with least disadvantaged communities as the reference category after controlling for individual patient-level demographic (i.e. age, sex, primary payer [Medicare, Medicaid, private, self-pay, no charge, or other]) and clinical characteristics (length of stay of the index admission, admission type [emergency, urgent, elective, or trauma center] an indicator for if they had a surgical procedure, Elixhauser comorbidity readmission risk score, and DRG of the index admission) and hospital-level characteristics (teaching status of the hospital [member of Council of Accredited Teaching Hospitals], total number of hospital beds, technology status of the hospital [i.e. capable of performing heart transplant or adult interventional cardiac catheterization], the hospital’s nurse-to-bed ratio, and the ownership status of the hospital [i.e. non-federal government, private for profit, or private not-for-profit]); ED = Emergency Department