Prediction of Patient Readmission by LACE Index components at Cardiac Care Unit of an Iranian Hospital: A Cohort Study

• Hoofdauteurs: Manal Etemadi (Auteur), Habibe Vaziri Nasab (Auteur), Ali Ebraze (Auteur), Elahe Khorasani (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: One approach to improve efficiency in health care is to identify patients with high risks of readmission so that resources should be distributed in a way they would benefit targeted care. A model named LACE (length of stay, acuity of admission, Charlson comorbidity index (CCI(, and numbe...