Peeraphatdit T, et al. - Because patients admitted to the hospital for alcoholic hepatitis (AH) have an increased risk of readmission and death, researchers evaluated issues related to readmission, alcohol relapse (defined as any amount of alcohol consumed within 30 days of discharge from hospital), and mortality. Data reported that 30-day readmission rates in both cohorts (test cohort, n=135 and validation cohort, n=159) were 30%. The rate of alcohol relapse in the test cohort was 37% and the validation cohort was 34%. Findings suggested that early alcohol rehabilitation (defined as residential or outpatient addiction treatment or mutual support group participation within 30 days after hospital discharge) can decrease the risk of hospital readmission, alcohol relapse, and death in this analysis of two cohorts of patients admitted with AH.