title: [Patient readmission. Medical diagnosis and risk factors of emergency readmission within 14 days].
abstract: Every tenth patient discharged from a medical department at a general hospital in Sweden during the period, 1992-1994, required emergency re-admission within 14 days. The risk of re-admission appeared to be unrelated to the duration of hospitalisation before discharge or to the occupancy rate. However, a high risk of emergency re-admission was found to be associated with four diagnoses: acute myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, heart failure and chronic obstructive lung disease. Plans are under way to launch a multicentre intervention study of emergency re-admission to departments of medicine.
authors.affiliation: Centrum för utvärdering av medicinsk teknologi, Linköping.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hallert
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases; D006769:Hospitals, General; D010359:Patient Readmission; D012307:Risk Factors; D013548:Sweden; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Medicinska återinläggningar. Medicinsk diagnos och risken för akut återinläggning inom 14 dagar.