Population
486 studies from European literature focusing on the use of hospital readmission rate as an outcome measure.
Design
Systematic_review
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Hospital readmission rates warrant cautious use as quality indicators in Europe; challenges validity consensus amid scarce methodological standardization.
The hospital readmission rate should be used with caution as a quality indicator in Europe due to scarce research on its validity and lack of consensus on methodology.
Fischer et al. (2011) studied this question.
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