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Hospital readmission rates are a poor, unidimensional marker of healthcare quality and discharge failure.
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The author argues that using readmission rates as a marker of discharge failure is a unidimensional and poor measurement of healthcare quality.
Using readmission as a marker of discharge failure shows unidimensional thought typical of many “measurements” of quality.1 Discharge from hospital should occur when the risks of being in the community (usually exaggerated) are less than …
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Amy Cohn (2014) studied this question. Hospital readmission rates are a poor, unidimensional marker of healthcare quality and discharge failure.
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