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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?>''') | ||