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March 25, 2013JAMA Internal Medicine

Potentially Avoidable 30-Day Hospital Readmissions in Medical Patients

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Population

Medical patients

Design

Other

Follow-up

30-day

Authors

JDJacques DonzéUniversity of BernDADrahomir AujeskyVascular MedicineDWDeborah WilliamsBrigham and Women's Hospital

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Implication

May support targeting transitional care in medical patients; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.

Structured PICO

P
Population
Medical patients
I
Intervention
Simple prediction model/score applied before discharge
O
Outcome
Potentially avoidable 30-day readmission

A simple prediction score can identify medical patients at risk for potentially avoidable 30-day readmissions to help target intensive transitional care interventions.

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Donzé et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d56c4e75589c71d767cd64https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.3023
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