Background: Identifying potentially avoidable admissions to Canadian hospitals is an
important health system goal. With general internal medicine (GIM) accounting for 40% of …

Background Potentially preventable admissions are a target for healthcare cost containment.
Objective To identify rates of, characterize associations with, and explore physician decision …

Objective: To identify patient-and admission-related risk factors for a medically inappropriate
admission to a department of internal medicine. Methods: Cross-sectional study of a …

Background To determine the factors associated with inappropriate admissions in an
Internal medicine department. Subjects and method We included 1,993 admissions. The …

OBJECTIVES: To describe a new quality assessment method used to classify the
preventability of hospitalization in terms of patient, clinician, or system factors. DESIGN: The …

Background Rates of preventable admissions will soon be publicly reported and used in
calculating performance-based payments. The current method of assessing preventable …

Importance Readmission penalties have catalyzed efforts to improve care transitions, but
few programs have incorporated viewpoints of patients and health care professionals to …

Objectives Admission rates have increased in China, despite the fact that accessibility to
primary care is improving. Hospital care could be cost-inefficient, and little is currently known …

Background We aimed to know which factors are associated with inappropriate stays in an
internal medicine department. Subjects and method We included 1,046 hospitalisations and …

Background Inappropriate hospital admissions compromise the efficiency of the health care
system. This work analyzes, for the first time, the prevalence of inappropriate admission and …