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

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urgent, unplanned hospital readmissions are increasingly being used to gauge the quality of care. We reviewed urgent readmissions to determine which were potentially avoidable and compared rates of all-cause and avoidable readmissions.

Methods

In a multicentre, prospective cohort study, we reviewed all urgent readmissions that occurred within six months among patients discharged to the community from 11 teaching and community hospitals between October 2002 and July 2006. Summaries of the readmissions were reviewed by at least four practising physicians using standardized methods to judge whether the readmission was an adverse event (poor clinical outcome due to medical care) and whether the adverse event could have been avoided. We used a latent class model to det

SUBMITTER: van Walraven C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3185098 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature