Diabetes Mellitus and Blood Glucose Variability Increase the 30-day Readmission Rate after Kidney Transplantation

2023, Paper: "The cohort included 1036 patients who received kidney transplantation, 224 (22%) experienced 30-day readmission. The machine learning algorithm was able to predict 30-day readmission with an average AUC of 77.3% (95% CI 75.30-79.3%). We observed statistically significant differences in presence of pretransplant diabetes, inpatient-hyperglycemia, inpatienthypoglycemia, minimum and maximum glucose values among those with higher 30-day readmission rates. The XGBoost model identified the index admission length of stay, presence of hyper- and hypoglycemia and recipient and donor BMI values as the most predictive risk factors of 30-day readmission. Additionally, significant variations in the therapeutic management of blood glucose by providers were observed."