28-Day emergency surgical re-admission rates as a clinical indicator of performance
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- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Surgeons of England in The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Vol. 85 (2) , 75-78
- https://doi.org/10.1308/003588403321219803
Abstract
With the introduction of clinical governance, the NHS Executive has identified 28-day emergency re-admission rates as a clinical indicator to be used to assess and compare performance between NHS trusts. We undertook a 3-month retrospective audit of patients identified from the trust computer as having been re-admitted as an emergency within 28 days of discharge from the general surgical division. We wanted to examine reasons for re-admission, possible errors in coding and any preventable factors in these patients subsequently re-admitted acutely.Keywords
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