%0 Journal Article
%T Early Death or Hospital Readmission
%A Alan J. Forster
%A MD
%A MSc
%A Carl Walraven
%A MD
%A MSc
%A Jenna Wong
%A MSc
%J Journal of Hospital Medicine
%D 2013
%R 10.1002/jhm.2025
%X BACKGROUNDThe relationship of socioeconomic status (SES) with hospital readmissions is unclear.METHODSWe used population©\based administrative datasets to randomly select 40,827 adult Ontarians discharged from hospital to the community. Patient postal codes were linked to average neighborhood household©\income quintiles. The association of this SES measure with 30©\day death or urgent readmission was measured after controlling for outcome risk using a validated index, LACE+: length of stay (L), acuity of the admission (A), comorbidity of the patient (measured with the Charlson Comorbidity Index score (C), and emergency©\department use (E).RESULTSWithin 1 month of discharge, 2638 (6.5%) people died or were urgently readmitted. Lower neighborhood income was significantly associated with both an increased outcome risk (P
%U https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/127138/early-death-or-hospital-readmission