$2.5 million funding helps researchers to advance tools for predicting readmission in diabetic patients
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 Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) are poised to better predict which patients with diabetes are most likely to experience additional hospital visits. Building from a model previously generated at Temple and known as the Diabetes Early Readmission Risk Indicator (DERRI
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IMAGE: Daniel J. Rubin, MD, MSc, FACE, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Chair of the Glycemic Control Taskforce at Temple University Hospital. view more
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(Philadelphia, PA) - 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.