Hospital readmissions, a $17 billion annual problem, are higher in rural, remote or smaller communities that sometimes have significantly less access to pharmacies, according researchers who are among the first to examine this issue (J Am Pharm Assoc 2016 Aug 2. [Epub ahead of print]).
Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) found that the average number of readmissions in rural areas was higher compared with their urban