Background In the current healthcare environment, health care providers do not always have the time needed to identify patients that have challenges understanding health[...]

There is a disconnect between acute and primary care when transitioning elderly patients from the hospital to the community, often leading to insufficient primary care fo[...]

ABSTRACTLANNY S. INABNIT. Rural Versus Urban Differences in Hospital Readmissions, Inpatient Mortality, and Cost Among COPD Patients. (Under the direction of Dr. AHMED AR[...]

Healthcare spending has been increasing in the last few decades. One of the main reasons for this increase is hospital readmissions, which is defined as a rehospitalizati[...]

LAURA ANN CLARK. Inpatient Resource Use and Cost Outcomes Among Kidney Transplant Recipients with vs. without Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. (Under the dir[...]