Incidence of potentially avoidable urgent readmissions and their relation to all-cause urgent readmissions.

C van Walraven; A Jennings; M Taljaard; I Dhalla; S English; S Mulpuru; S Blecker; A. J Forster

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Incidence of potentially avoidable urgent readmissions and their relation to all-cause urgent readmissions.

September 28, 2011

van Walraven C, Jennings A, Taljaard M, et al. Can Med Assoc J. 2011;183(14).

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Readmissions after hospital discharge are common and may be related to adverse events after discharge. However, this Canadian study of discharges from 11 hospitals found that fewer than 1 in 5 urgent readmissions could be considered preventable. Both this proportion and the overall incidence of readmissions varied widely across individual hospitals.

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