Readmissions - can they be predicted on admission?

Health Informatics Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 138-146

  Allgar, V ^a   Procter, S ^b   Pearson, P ^c   Lock, C ^c   Taylor, G ^d   Wilcockson, J ^b   Foster, D ^c   Spendiff, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

delayed; discharge; hospital; integrating large datasets; Predicting; readmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990385338     PISSN: 14604582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146045820200800303     Document Type: Article

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