One factor that affects readmission rates is whether patients have a realistic care plan to follow at home, says HealthMaker Henry Masur, MD, chief of the NIH's critical care medicine department. Here he describes support systems that aid recovery.
Henry Masur, MD, has been Chief of the National Institutes of Health’s Critical Care Medicine department since 1989. Dr. Masur is an expert in the fields of HIV-related infections and of critical care related to infectious disease. He leads the District of Columbia Partnership for AIDS Progress and is Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University.
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