![]() Unplanned readmission within 30 days of discharge is an important indicator of the cost and quality of healthcare service and is strongly related to clinical and sociodemographic characteristics. There is growing recognition that readmission is an outcome measure for quality of healthcare, cost reduction, and transitions of care. Readmissions account for billions of dollars in annual Medicare expenditures. Unplanned readmission is not only an indicator of the critical quality of care for patients but also a significant factor in rising healthcare costs. Hospital readmission is a serious, common, and costly adverse patient outcome. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. ![]() If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. ![]() Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. ![]()
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