Name: Reducing Hospital Readmissions Among Patients With Poorer Kidney Function by Population Health Learning Network
Duration: 8 min 37 s
Description: Barry Gorlitsky, MD, discusses positive treatment outcomes among patients with gout, how to lower hospital readmissions among patients with diluted blood sodium due to kidney function issues, and introduces for the first time a new lower-cost treatment option that he and his colleagues recently developed.

Barry Gorlitsky, MD, discusses positive treatment outcomes among patients with gout, how to lower hospital readmissions among patients with diluted blood sodium due to kidney function issues, and introduces for the first time a new lower-cost treatment option that he and his colleagues recently developed.

Reducing Hospital Readmissions Among Patients With Poorer Kidney Function

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Reducing Hospital Readmissions Among Patients With Poorer Kidney Function

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