Readmission
Readmissions are patients who have been discharged and readmitted in a short time frame.
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| Indicator: | Readmission |
| Created/Raw: | Created |
| Program: | Critical Care and Medicine |
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| Reports: | No reports on this wiki list this as an indicator. |
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
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- HSC IICU has no readmission
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)
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