Readmission

Readmissions are patients who have been discharged and readmitted in a short time frame.

Indicators
Indicator:	Readmission
Created/Raw:	Created
Program:	Critical Care and Medicine
Start Date:
End Date:
Reports:	No reports on this wiki list this as an indicator.
Data Dependencies(Reports/Indicators/Data Elements):	No reports on this wiki list this as an indicator.

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They are a case of Multiple Encounter.

Exclusions

Exclusions for readmissions are the following:

• There is a planned admission like elective surgery
• Left the ward or unit against medical advice (AMA)
• Palliative patients

based on ICD10 Palliative care or on DC Treatment or on what?

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• HSC IICU has no readmission

Readmission Rate to ICU

Medicine Definition

For medicine, a readmission is a patient where

• (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

Legacy information

• (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 Dec 31, 2006)