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Preventability of Early Versus Late Hospital Readmissions

Tetsuo Takata, MD, PhD; Yuki Katoka, MD, MPH

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TO THE EDITOR:
We appreciate Graham and colleagues' (1) efforts to collect important data. The time required to observe patients until readmission is a very valuable point for medical economics. However, we had 2 concerns about patient characteristics.
Our first concern is disease severity. Woldhek and associates (2) reported that greater increases in the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score among patients in the intensive care unit correspond with higher rates of readmission. Frost and coworkers (3) also reported relationships between illness severity and risk for readmission. In daily medical practice, patients with critical illnesses have prolonged hospitalizations. We would like to know the results when the influence of disease severity is removed.
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Takata T, Katoka Y. Preventability of Early Versus Late Hospital Readmissions. Ann Intern Med. ;170:218–219. doi: 10.7326/L18-0606

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2019;170(3):218-219.

DOI: 10.7326/L18-0606

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