Readmission rate improvements often attributed to an Affordable Care Act policy fining hospitals with higher-than-expected readmissions may actually be the result of changes in how visits were being ...

Patients revisiting the hospital within 30 days of initial discharge increasingly receive care in emergency departments and observation stays, marking a shift that may reflect hospitals’ efforts to ...

According to a new national study, most children visiting hospital emergency departments with anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction, could be discharged after two ...