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=== Medicine Definition ===
=== Medicine Definition ===
For medicine, a readmission is a patient where
For medicine, a readmission is a patient where
* (admit date/time) - (most recent discharge date/time) <= 7 days after their most recent discharge time
* (admit date/time) - (most recent discharge date/time to the hospital) <= 7 days after their most recent discharge time to the hospital
* is admitted from outside hospital
* is admitted from outside hospital
* (Legacy: planned surgery used to be excluded, but this stopped because of insufficient data when we stopped collecting some APACHE elements in the medicine program '''<when?>''')
* (Legacy: planned surgery used to be excluded, but this stopped because of insufficient data when we stopped collecting some APACHE elements in the medicine program '''<when?>''')
====Discussion====
* is the detection of med readmits for pts discharged from med previously only, or does it include pts who went home directly from ICU?