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Incidence of potentially avoidable urgent readmissions and their relation to all-cause urgent readmissions.
October 31, 2011
van Walraven C, Jennings A, Taljaard M, et al. Can Med Assoc J. 2011;183(14).
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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