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An international study of hospital readmissions and related utilization in Europe and the USA

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  • Westert, Gert P.
  • Lagoe, Ronald J.
  • Keskimaki, Ilmo
  • Leyland, Alastair
  • Murphy, Mark

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  • Westert, Gert P. & Lagoe, Ronald J. & Keskimaki, Ilmo & Leyland, Alastair & Murphy, Mark, 2002. "An international study of hospital readmissions and related utilization in Europe and the USA," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 61(3), pages 269-278, September.
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    3. Mollie Shulan & Kelly Gao & Crystal Moore, 2013. "Predicting 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 167-175, June.
    4. Aida Bianco & Antonio Molè & Carmelo G A Nobile & Gabriella Di Giuseppe & Claudia Pileggi & Italo F Angelillo, 2012. "Hospital Readmission Prevalence and Analysis of Those Potentially Avoidable in Southern Italy," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(11), pages 1-8, November.
    5. Stephen Martin & Andrew Street & Lu Han & John Hutton, 2014. "The impact of hospital financing on the quality of inpatient care in England," Working Papers 105cherp, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
    6. Afsaneh Bjorvatn, 2013. "Hospital readmission among elderly patients," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 14(5), pages 809-820, October.
    7. Laudicella, Mauro & Li Donni, Paolo & Smith, Peter C., 2013. "Hospital readmission rates: Signal of failure or success?," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(5), pages 909-921.
    8. Issac Shams & Saeede Ajorlou & Kai Yang, 2015. "A predictive analytics approach to reducing 30-day avoidable readmissions among patients with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, or COPD," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 18(1), pages 19-34, March.
    9. Yuxi Wang & Simone Ghislandi & Aleksandra Torbica, 2020. "Investigating the geographic disparity in quality of care: the case of hospital readmission after acute myocardial infarction in Italy," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 21(8), pages 1149-1168, November.
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