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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rehospitalize .
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Examples
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Medicare spends billions of dollars every year for care of patients who have been rehospitalized or endure lengthy hospital stays after bleeding, infections and other post-surgery complications.
Data Spur Changes in VA Care Thomas M. Burton 2011
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Overall, patients taking a PPI had about a 25% increased risk of death or being rehospitalized.
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The study found that 26.9% of the heart-failure patients in the study were rehospitalized within 30 days after discharge.
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In the case of 50.2% of the patients who were rehospitalized within 30 days after a medical discharge to the community, there was no bill for a visit to a physician's office between the time of discharge and rehospitalization.
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Nearly 30% of the PPI group died or were rehospitalized for heart attack or angina, compared with 21% of the patients who did not take a PPI.
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About 20% of hospitalized Medicare patients are rehospitalized within 30 days.
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Nationally, one in five Medicare patients who are discharged from a hospital are readmitted within 30 days, and one in three are rehospitalized within 90 days.
James R. Knickman: Containing Costs Key to Health Reform Success 2009
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Nearly 30% of the PPI group died or were rehospitalized for heart attack or angina, compared with 21% of the patients who did not take a PPI.
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Overall, patients taking a PPI had about a 25% increased risk of death or being rehospitalized.
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But within days she was rehospitalized and given antipsychotic drugs.
The Exorcism Of Gina 2008
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