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ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2018

Seasonal Variation in Readmission Risk for Patients Hospitalized with Cardiopulmonary Conditions.

Saul Blecker, Ji Young Kwon, Jeph Herrin, Jacqueline N Grady, Leora I Horwitz

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Seasonality, Hospitalization, and Initiation of Home Dialysis: A Retrospective Cohort Study.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Saul BleckerDivision of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. saul.blecker@nyumc.org.
Ji Young KwonCenter for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA.
Jeph HerrinSection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Jacqueline N GradyCenter for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA.
Leora I HorwitzDivision of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

Understanding hospital value: provider, hospital and community effectsR01HS022882 · AHRQ · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HORWITZ, LEORA · 2014 to 2023
$2.9M
Health Information Technology in Heart Failure CareK08HS023683 · AHRQ · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI BLECKER, SAUL B. · 2014 to 2017
$633k
AHRQ HHS K08 HS023683AHRQ HHS R01 HS022882
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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SeasonsHeart FailureHumansMedicarePatient ReadmissionPneumoniaPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentUnited States

Identifiers

PMID29464475
PMCPMC5910346

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