Prediction of 30-day unplanned hospital readmission among elderly patients using patient and ward level factors
Awoke Fetahi Woudneh · 2025
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Awoke Woudneh predicts which elderly Ethiopian patients bounce back to hospital within thirty days. His 2025 study follows 504 patients aged sixty-five and up from 2023 to 2025. Readmission in sub-Saharan Africa is poorly mapped, and ward-level factors are rarely studied there.
Nearly forty-five percent return unplanned within a month. Wards themselves explain about a fifth of the variation in odds, a strong clustering signal. Patient risks include more chronic illness, prior admissions, longer stays, and cognitive impairment. Wards with a standard discharge protocol cut readmission odds by about forty-five percent. The protocol shield works strongest for cognitively impaired patients. Woudneh argues ward routines are a fixable lever in strained health systems, not just background noise.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Awoke Fetahi Woudneh |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |