Hospitalized patients with low-socioeconomic status were more likely to obtain post-discharge primary care and less likely to have multiple 30-day readmissions to the hospital when they worked with community health workers to create individualized plans for their recovery goals, according to a study by Shreya Kangovi, M.D., M.S., of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and colleagues. Socioeconomic and other factors can negatively affect post-hospital outcomes.

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