Percentage of patients who were sent home from hospital, and then readmitted within seven or 30 days.

Number of discharged patients readmitted to the hospital within 7 or 30 days.

Number of patients discharged.

Numerator exclusions: (1) Records with an invalid or missing ULI number (e.g. a null or zero ULI, or a newborn with the same ULI as his/her mother.) (2) Records with invalid admission or discharge date/time (e.g. the initial admit and discharge dates overlap with another discharge's admit and discharge dates). (3) Transfer from another inpatient care, emergency department, ambulatory care, residential care, group/supportive living, or correctional facility (Discharge Disposition = '10', '20'. '30'. '40' or '90'). (4) The previous admission is being discharged as sign-out. Denominator exclusions: (1) Records with an invalid or missing ULI number. (2) Records with invalid admission or discharge date/time. (3) Transfer to another inpatient care, emergency department, ambulatory care, residential care, group/supportive living, or correctional facility (Discharge Disposition = '10', '20'. '30'. '40' or '90'). (4) Leave (Discharge Disposition = '61', '62', '65', '66', or '67'). (5) Deaths (Discharge Disposition = '72', '73', or '74'). (6) Cadavers (Discharge Disposition = '08'). (7) Stillbirths (Discharge Disposition = '09').

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By readmission time-frame (7 days, 30 days), hospital and hospital type (large urban trauma, large urban, medium urban, children's).

AHS Provincial Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)

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