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Argues that readmission rates reflect the functioning of the entire health and social care system rather than just acute hospital care quality.
These articles on readmission are based on a flawed premise—that readmissions are a marker of the quality of care in acute hospitals.1 2 3 Of course, patients are sometimes sent home unwell and prematurely, or with complications caused by hospital admission. But readmissions usually occur because4:
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David Oliver (2014) studied this question.