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Hospital readmission is an important quality of care indicator. It reflects challenges in quality of in-patient care and the difficulty of coordination of care after the transition back into the community. It is also a significant financial burden, especially as it relates to Medicare and Medicaid costs now and into the future. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is also one of the leading causes of disability and mortality worldwide. So it is a quality, cost and demographic imperative to design and develop predictive clinical support systems to better manage patients with this condition so as to simultaneously improve the quality of care while controlling costs through avoiding preventable hospital readmissions for patients with COPD.
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Behara, R., Agarwal, A., Fatteh, F., Furht, B. (2013). Predicting Hospital Readmission Risk for COPD Using EHR Information. In: Furht, B., Agarwal, A. (eds) Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8495-0_13
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