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Reliably identifying avoidable hospital readmissions remains critical for health policy reform.
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Readmission rates should not yet inform quality metrics or policy; leaves open the true proportion of avoidable events pending standardized assessment methods.
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N Goldfield (2011) studied this question. Identifying avoidable hospital readmissions with certainty is viewed by policy-makers as a critical requirement for improving the health care system.
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