Case Study — University Health Care System Hospital readmission rates for Medicare patients increased nationally from 1999 to 2002 across fi ve potentially preventable conditions — electrolyte imbalance, congestive heart failure, respiratory infection, urinary tract infection (UTI), and sepsis. From 2003 to 2004, 20 percent of 12 million discharged Medicare patients were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, and 34 percent were readm

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