Strategies to decrease the rate of preventable readmission to hospital
TL;DR: In developing a tool to predict early death and unplanned readmissions to hospital, van Walraven and colleagues point to the fact that readmissions are expensive, common and often preventable, as others have stated.
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Abstract: See related research article by van Walraven and colleagues, page [551][1]
In developing a tool to predict early death and unplanned readmissions to hospital, van Walraven and colleagues point to the fact that readmissions are expensive, common and often preventable, as others have stated. [1][2
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