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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015 Apr 14;65(14):1398–1408. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.01.048

Figure 3. The distribution of the most common diagnoses responsible for 30-day readmission over the time periods: 0–7 days, 8–15 days and 16–30 days.

Figure 3

Some readmission diagnoses varied over time. For instance, complications of care, heart failure and acute stroke were more often encountered during the first week following hospitalization. In contrast, other peripheral vascular diseases, chronic angina and coronary artery disease were more common in the third and fourth week following hospitalization.