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The Continued Quest for Pediatric Readmission Risk Prediction
Lauren G Solan1, Katherine A Auger2,3,4
1Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Golisano Children's Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA.
Journal of Hospital Medicine
|August 30, 2018
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