{"doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0282081","title":"Impact of early telemedicine follow-up on 30-Day hospital readmissions","abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Telemedicine is increasing in popularity but the impact of this shift on patient outcomes has not been well described. Prior data has shown that early post-discharge office visits can reduce readmissions. However, it is unknown if routine use of telemedicine visits for this purpose is similarly beneficial. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective observational study using electronic health records data to assess if the rate of 30-day hospital readmissions differed between modality of visit for primary care or cardiology post-discharge follow-up visits. RESULTS: Compared to discharges with completed in-person follow-up visits, the adjusted odds of readmission for those with telemedicine follow-up visits was not significantly different (odds ratio [OR] 0.96, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.61 to 1.51, P = 0.86). CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed that 30-day readmission rate did not differ significantly according to the modality of visit. These results provide reassurance that telemedicine visits are a safe and viable alternative for primary care or cardiology post-hospitalization follow-up.","journal":"PLoS ONE","year":2023,"id":359401,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":10,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9478,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":106980,"name":"Talea Cornelius","orcid":"0000-0001-7181-0981","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":107000,"name":"Marwah Abdalla","orcid":"0000-0002-2725-505X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":106973,"name":"Nathalie Moise","orcid":"0000-0002-5660-5573","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":106985,"name":"Ian M. Kronish","orcid":"0000-0003-0945-2380","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":106975,"name":"Siqin Ye","orcid":"0000-0002-5229-9775","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":930937,"name":"Anne Grauer","orcid":"0000-0002-7386-0242","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":26,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:13:52.889556Z","pmid":"37216362","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}