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Early readmissions to the department of medicine as a screening tool for monitoring quality of care problems.
Balla U, Malnick S, Schattner A. Medicine (Baltimore). 2008;87:294-300.

Unplanned readmissions within 30 days of discharge were associated with problems in the quality of care, including inadequate diagnostic workup and diagnostic error.
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