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标题：Interventions for reducing readmissions – are we barking up the right tree?
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作者：Ran D Balicer ; Efrat Shadmi ; Avi Israeli 等
期刊名称：Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
印刷版ISSN：2045-4015
电子版ISSN：2045-4015
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：2
DOI：10.1186/2045-4015-2-2
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Readmission reduction is at the focus of health care systems worldwide in efforts to improve efficiency across care settings. Yet, setting targets for readmission reduction is complicated due to inconsistencies in evidence pointing to effective organization-wide interventions and because of inverse incentives (such as maintaining high occupancy rates). Nonetheless, readmission reduction is one of the few quality measures that, if implemented properly, can serve as a catalyst for system integration. Appropriate mechanisms should be applied to hospitals as well as ambulatory settings to ensure that accountability is assigned to all stakeholders.
关键词：Readmission ; Quality of care ; Health services research