The association between outpatient follow-up visits and all-cause non-elective 30-day readmissions: A retrospective observational cohort study

• Liping Tong ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liping.tong@advocatehealth.com

  Affiliation Advocate Health Care, Downers Grove, IL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1572-9414

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• Tim Arnold,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cerner Corporation, North Kansas City, MO, United States of America

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• Jie Yang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Xinyong Tian,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Advocate Health Care, Downers Grove, IL, United States of America

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• Cole Erdmann,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cerner Corporation, North Kansas City, MO, United States of America

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• Tina Esposito

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Advocate Health Care, Downers Grove, IL, United States of America

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