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Focusing on hospital readmission rates as a quality measure has yielded minimal demonstrable benefit and distracted health systems from other crucial quality concerns.
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The focus on hospital readmission rates as a quality measure may have minimal benefit and distract from other important quality concerns.
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Cram et al. (2022) studied this question. Focusing on hospital readmission rates as a quality measure has yielded minimal demonstrable benefit and distracted health systems from other crucial quality concerns.
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