The Relationship between Hospital Admission Rates and Rehospitalizations
Open Access
- 15 December 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 365 (24), 2287-2295
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa1101942
Abstract
Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions have focused primarily on improving transitional care. Yet variation in readmission rates may more closely reflect variation in the underlying hospitalization rates than differences in the quality of care during and after discharge.Keywords
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