Funding for this research was provided by:
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Article History
Received: 19 March 2026
Revised: 9 June 2026
Accepted: 10 July 2026
First Online: 14 July 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Human ethics and consent to participate: Not applicable. This study used the HCUP Nationwide Readmissions Database, which contains only de-identified discharge data.
Consent to participate: Not applicable. No human participants were directly recruited.
Consent for publication: Not applicable. No individual person’s identifiable data are included.