Hospital Readmissions in Patients with Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND Hospital readmission is a significant problem for patients with complex chronic illnesses such as liver cirrhosis. PURPOSE We aimed to describe the range of readmission risk in patients with cirrhosis and the impact of the model for end‐stage liver disease (MELD) score. DATA SOURCES We conducted a systematic review of studies identified in Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, Scopus, Google Scholar, and...