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Unplanned Returns to Hospital Care: A Linked Data Study
Kathy Smith, Renee Iannotti
139 - 145
10.3233/978-1-61499-783-2-139
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 239: Integrating and Connecting Care
Abstract

The linkage of data across facilities and settings of care provides a holistic view of the patient journey through the healthcare system. This study, through data linkage, reviews alternative approaches to the measurement of unplanned returns to care in NSW public hospital emergency departments and admitted patient care settings. The study shows that existing measures of unplanned returns do not identify the true extent of these events and highlight the need to develop new approaches to measurement using the increasing availability of integrated patient information.

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