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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 20.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2013 Jan 23;309(4):355–363. doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.216476

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Figure 2

The percentage of patients readmitted with common readmission diagnoses during cumulative time periods following hospitalization for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia. The denominators used to calculate the percentage of 30-day readmissions due to common readmission diagnoses during each cumulative time period after hospitalization for HF were 44,257 readmissions for days 0–3, 104,362 readmissions for days 0–7, 201,005 readmissions for days 0–15, and 329,308 readmissions for days 0–30. Analogously, following AMI hospitalization, the denominators used were 20,801 readmissions for days 0–3, 43,687 readmissions for days 0–7, 73,641 readmissions for days 0–15, and 108,992 readmissions for days 0–30. Following pneumonia hospitalization, the denominators used were 32,829 readmissions for days 0–3, 71,995 readmissions for days 0–7, 134,033 readmissions for days 0–15, and 214,239 readmissions for days 0–30.