I am Olafimihan Ayobami. A PGY-3 internal medicine resident at the prestigious Cook County Hospital. So I'll be sharing my work on readmission trends in acute myeloid leukemia. Taking a look at social, economic disparities. Why this is an important topic is because readmission is a major concern, not just in the patient population, but also to the health care system. To the patient population it affects their quality of life and to the health care system, it's a huge financial burden. And research has shown that cancer patients, including patients with AML, have high rates of readmission. And also this poses, huge financial stress to the health care system. So for our research, we found that patients with low income status tend to have a habit of, readmissions, compared to patient with high income status.
And this is pretty much significant because we feel that there's a gap, a socioeconomic gap at this point that can be addressed by use of evidence based, coordination for the inpatient discharge from the hospital to ensure that they get good follow up and they come for their appointments, by so doing would reduce rates of readmission, thereby improving the quality of life for the patients.
More readmissions, more debts, and then the cycle continues, yes. So to mention we identified that can be of help is like the health care system working together in unison to ensure that when patients are identified at risk of readmission from the socioeconomic status. Efforts should be made that identifying those gaps that can be advised. For instance, if patient is going on, they should ensure coordination of social work there to ensure that they have transport to come back to their appointments and also probably get social support for them.
HealthTree • January 6, 2025