TY - JOUR AU - Buja, Alessandra AU - De Polo, Anna AU - De Battisti, Elisa AU - Sperotto, Milena AU - Baldovin, Tatjana AU - Cocchio, Silvia AU - Furlan, Patrizia AU - Saia, Mario AU - Scapellato, Maria Luisa AU - Viel, Guido AU - Baldo, Vincenzo AU - Bertoncello, Chiara AU - Ebell, Mark PY - 2020 DA - 2020/01/14 TI - The importance of sex as a risk factor for hospital readmissions due to pulmonary diseases JO - BMC Public Health SP - 53 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Pulmonary diseases are a common and costly cause of 30-day readmissions. Few studies have focused on the difference in risk for rehospitalization between men and women in older patients. In this study we analyzed the association between sex and the risk of readmission in a cohort of patients admitted to the hospital for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation and other major pulmonary diseases. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-8138-6 DO - 10.1186/s12889-019-8138-6 ID - Buja2020 ER -