Factors influencing emergency medical readmission risk in a UK district general hospital: A prospective study

doi:10.1186/1471-227X-5-1

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A correction for this article has been published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2005, 5:4

Research article

Factors influencing emergency medical readmission risk in a UK district general hospital: A prospective study

Georgios Lyratzopoulos¹^,2 , Daniel Havely³ , Islay Gemmell² and Gary A Cook³

¹Directorate of Clinical Services and Public Health, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority, Fulbourn, UK

²Evidence for Population Health Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

³Department of Epidemiology, Stockport NHS Trust, Stockport, UK

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BMC Emergency Medicine 2005, 5:1doi:10.1186/1471-227X-5-1


Published:	21 January 2005

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Length of stay group and readmission free Kaplan-Meier curves (0–28 days). This file demonstrates that during follow-up of 0–28 days, length of stay is not proportional to readmission risk, reason for which a time varying co-variate was included in the Cox regression model (see main article Text).

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