Background: Readmissions to hospital are common, costly and often preventable. An easy-
to-use index to quantify the risk of readmission or death after discharge from hospital would …

Background Death or urgent readmission after hospital discharge is a common adverse
event that can be used to compare outcomes of care between institutions. To accurately …

Background Unplanned hospital readmissions are common, expensive and often
preventable. Strategies designed to reduce readmissions should target patients at high risk …

Importance Identification of patients at a high risk of potentially avoidable readmission
allows hospitals to efficiently direct additional care transitions services to the patients most …

Readmission to a hospital shortly following a previous discharge may be viewed as an
adverse outcome of care. Consequently, early readmission represents a potentially useful …

The LACE index (length of stay, acuity of admission, Charlson comorbidity index, CCI, and
number of emergency department visits in preceding 6 months) derived in Canada is simple …

Background: Urgent, unplanned hospital readmissions are increasingly being used to
gauge the quality of care. We reviewed urgent readmissions to determine which were …

Objective: To determine clinical and patient-centered factors predicting non-elective hospital
readmissions. Design: Secondary analysis from a randomized clinical trial. Clinical setting …

Background Previous studies of hospital readmission have focused on specific conditions or
populations and generated complex prediction models. Objective To identify predictors of …

Objective To assess how well the LACE index and its constituent elements predict 30-day
hospital readmission, and to determine whether other combinations of clinical or …