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LACE+ index: extension of a validated index to predict early death or urgent readmission after hospital discharge using administrative data

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 adjust for risk and to allow for interhospital comparisons of readmission rates, we used administrative data to derive and inter...

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Autores principales: van Walraven, Carl, Wong, Jenna, Forster, Alan J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Open Medicine Publications, Inc. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3659212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23696773