Factors Leading to Preventable Hospital Admissions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9104418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew C Twaddle (corresponding author), Roger H Sweet (Massachusetts General Hospital) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 200-208 |
| Publication date | 1970-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-197008030-00004 |
| PMID | 5423981 |
| OpenAlex | W1984483082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
An exploratory study of factors leading to preventable hospital admissions focusing on a medical ward population found a large proportion of patients with preventable illnesses or illnesses sufficiently modifiable to have made admission avoidable. This report presents methods for assessing preventability and some preliminary findings relative to patient and physician failures. Leading patient failures included heavy cigarette smoking, obesity, delay, drug abuse, and alcohol problems. Physician failures included both diagnostic and treatment errors. While patient failures were more numerous, physician failures seemed more consequential with reference to preventing hospital admissions
Medical emergency · Emergency Medicine · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 1988 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |