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Emergency readmission rates
— everybody's business | | Author(s) | Bob Hudson |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1750, 4 December 2008 |
| Pages | pp 32-34 |
| Source | http://www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Keywords | Admission [hospitals] ; Accident & emergency depts ; Evaluation ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The use and cost of acute hospital beds has become a key health policy issue in recent years. 'Emergency readmission rates: further analysis', compiled for the National Health Service (NHS), presents data indicating that emergency readmissions have been rising for some time. This article outlines the report's findings on the impact of length of hospital stay, and changes in readmissions cases and in age groups represented. While recognising the contribution of social care (e.g. the Partnership for Older People Project - POPP), the report is too clinically focused. The use of predictive tools for identifying individuals at risk of readmission fail to take account of social care aspects. The report reviewed is available for download (at. www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publica... (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-090113502 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKH: LD6: 4C: 64A * |
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