. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Curr Geriatr Rep. 2014 Sep 21;3(4):306–315. doi: 10.1007/s13670-014-0103-8

Table 2. Readmission Timing Among Older Patients Initially Hospitalized with Heart Failure or Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Time period after discharge	Heart failure	Acute myocardial infarction

	Percentage of 30-day readmissions occurring during time period	Percentage of 30-day readmissions occurring during time period
First 3 days	13.4%	19.1%
First 7 days	31.4%	40.1%
First 15 days	61.0%	67.6%