Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10514256 | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2012 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Urgent readmission rates can be used to estimate the probability that avoidable readmission rates differ significantly between the two hospitals. The probability that avoidable readmission rates differ significantly between hospitals is small even when significant differences in urgent 30-day readmission rates exist. Our results show that 30-day urgent readmission rates should be used very cautiously to compare hospital quality of care.
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Carl van Walraven, Peter C. Austin, Alan J. Forster,