Identifying preventable readmissions: an achievable goal or waiting for Godot?

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Christine Soong et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2015 Dec.

. 2015 Dec;24(12):741-3.

doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004484. Epub 2015 Aug 26.

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: Healthcare quality improvement; Hospital medicine; Patient-centred care.

Comment in

Recast the debate about preventable readmissions.
Sutherland K, Marashi-Pour S, Chen HY, Morgan A, Lévesque JF. Sutherland K, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016 May;25(5):386-7. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-005132. Epub 2016 Jan 4. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016. PMID: 26733726 No abstract available.
Response to: 'Recast the debate about preventable readmissions' by Sutherland et al.
Soong C, Bell C. Soong C, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016 May;25(5):388. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-005126. Epub 2016 Jan 7. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016. PMID: 26744422 No abstract available.

Do pneumonia readmissions flagged as potentially preventable by the 3M PPR software have more process of care problems? A cross-sectional observational study.
Borzecki AM, Chen Q, Restuccia J, Mull HJ, Shwartz M, Gupta K, Hanchate A, Strymish J, Rosen A. Borzecki AM, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2015 Dec;24(12):753-63. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003911. Epub 2015 Aug 17. BMJ Qual Saf. 2015. PMID: 26283672