“…However, the readmission rates of patients discharged from the general medicine wards, as reported by several studies (11.9-19.0%) [9,10,12,27,28], were similar to those we observed in this study. In some previous studies conducted in Turkey, readmission rates were 19.0% for heart failure [29], 7.6% for spinal cord injury [30], 20.0% for psychiatric patients [31] and 9.0% after colorectal cancer surgery [32].…”