All-cause 30-day readmission rates after ACS are heterogeneous and often unrelated to the index stay, suggesting they may be misleading as a hospital performance metric.
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30-day ACS readmissions may mislead as hospital quality metrics; challenges their validity and leaves open patient-level drivers of mortality.
Southern et al. (2014) studied this question.
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