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Is readmission to hospital an indicator of poor process of care for patients with heart failure?

Luthi JC, Burnand B, McClellan WM, Pitts SR, Flanders WD.

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Outcomes and the quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure.

Luthi JC, Flanders WD, Pitts SR, Burnand B, McClellan WM.

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Unplanned readmissions of patients with congestive heart failure: do they reflect in-hospital quality of care or patient characteristics?

Kossovsky MP, Sarasin FP, Perneger TV, Chopard P, Sigaud P, Gaspoz J.

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Readmissions and the quality of care in patients hospitalized with heart failure.

Luthi JC, Lund MJ, Sampietro-Colom L, Kleinbaum DG, Ballard DJ, McClellan WM.

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Validation of the potentially avoidable hospital readmission rate as a routine indicator of the quality of hospital care.

Halfon P, Eggli Y, Prêtre-Rohrbach I, Meylan D, Marazzi A, Burnand B.

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Quality of care and hospital readmission in congestive heart failure: an explicit review process.

Polanczyk CA, Newton C, Dec GW, Di Salvo TG.

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Hospital readmissions and quality of care.

Weissman JS, Ayanian JZ, Chasan-Taber S, Sherwood MJ, Roth C, Epstein AM.

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Readmission rate as an indicator of hospital performance: the case of Spain.

Jiménez-Puente A, García-Alegría J, Gómez-Aracena J, Hidalgo-Rojas L, Lorenzo-Nogueiras L, Perea-Milla-López E, Fernández-Crehuet-Navajas J.

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The EuroHeart Failure survey programme-- a survey on the quality of care among patients with heart failure in Europe. Part 1: patient characteristics and diagnosis.

Cleland JG, Swedberg K, Follath F, Komajda M, Cohen-Solal A, Aguilar JC, Dietz R, Gavazzi A, Hobbs R, Korewicki J, Madeira HC, Moiseyev VS, Preda I, van Gilst WH, Widimsky J, Freemantle N, Eastaugh J, Mason J; Study Group on Diagnosis of the Working Group on Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology.

Eur Heart J. 2003 Mar;24(5):442-63.PMID: 12633546 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Variations in quality of care for heart failure.

Luthi JC, McClellan WM, Flanders WD, Pitts SR, Burnand B.

Swiss Med Wkly. 2006 Apr 29;136(17-18):268-73.PMID: 16741849 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

[Early readmission as an indicator of hospital quality of care]

François P, Bertrand D, Beden C, Fauconnier J, Olive F.

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Variations in the quality of care of patients with acute myocardial infarction among Swiss university hospitals.

Luthi JC, McClellan WM, Flanders WD, Pitts SR, Burnand B.

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Measuring potentially avoidable hospital readmissions.

Halfon P, Eggli Y, van Melle G, Chevalier J, Wasserfallen JB, Burnand B.

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[Quality of care indicators related to premature readmission and death after hospitalization for heart failure]

Trujillo-Santos AJ, Domingo-González S, Gonzalo-Blanquer J, Perea-Milla E, Jiménez-Puente A, García-Alegría J.

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Socioeconomic status, treatment, and outcomes among elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure: findings from the National Heart Failure Project.

Rathore SS, Masoudi FA, Wang Y, Curtis JP, Foody JM, Havranek EP, Krumholz HM.

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Comparison between planned and unplanned readmissions to a department of internal medicine.

Kossovsky MP, Perneger TV, Sarasin FP, Bolla F, Borst F, Gaspoz JM.

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[Quality of inpatient care and risk of early readmission in acute exacerbation of COPD]

Jiménez Puente A, Fernández Guerra J, Hidalgo Rojas L, Domingo González S, Lara Blanquer A, García Alegría J.

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Are diagnosis specific outcome indicators based on administrative data useful in assessing quality of hospital care?

Scott I, Youlden D, Coory M.

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[Predictive variables of early hospital readmission in cardiac failure]

Jiménez Puente A, García Alegría J, González Cocina E, Lara Blanquer A, Lorenzo Nogueiras L.

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Early readmissions to the department of medicine as a screening tool for monitoring quality of care problems.

Balla U, Malnick S, Schattner A.

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