Validation of the potentially avoidable hospital readmission rate as a routine indicator of the quality of hospital care

Medical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 972-981

  Halfon, Patricia ^a,c   Eggli, Yves ^b   Prêtre Rohrbach, Isaline ^a   Meylan, Danielle ^a   Marazzi, Alfio ^a   Burnand, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Health care quality indicator; Medical errors; Patient readmission; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750534784     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000228002.43688.c2     Document Type: Article

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