$2.5 million funding helps researchers to advance tools for predicting readmission in diabetic patients – News-Medical.Net

Each year in the United States, more than 1 million patients with diabetes make return trips to the hospital for diabetes-related illness, often being readmitted within 30 days of their initial hospitalization. The costs of these return visits add up, in terms of dollars and in terms of the toll on patient health that comes with prolonged or chronic illness and repeated hospitalization.
Some patients are especially prone to hospital readmission, and now, with $2.5 million in funding from the National…

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