Audit in Practice
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* In the three linked articles Drs Clarke, Chambers, and Milne deal with the issue of using readmission rates as an outcome indicatorfor hospital care. Thefirst paper assesses thefeasibility ofmeasuring readmission ratesfrom routinely collected Korner data in a study of three districts in North East Thames region and the second, based on a study in one district, whether readmissions may be judged as avoidable or unavoidable. The third article examines the validity of using readmission rates as an outcome indicator, and the authors conclude that such an approach is misleading and should be avoided.
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