Table 4 Index admission characteristics: all versus preventable unplanned readmissions within 1 day
All unplanned readmissions ≤1 day (n = 162) | Preventable unplanned readmissions ≤1 day (n = 19) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | |
Emergency admission* | 126 | 77.8 | 17 | 89.5 |
Admitting Program | ||||
• Emergency Medicine** | 60 | 37.0 | 12 | 63.2 |
• Surgical | 39 | 24.1 | 2 | 10.5 |
• General Medical | 26 | 16.0 | 3 | 15.7 |
• Specialty Medicine | 21 | 13.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Women’s Health | 11 | 6.8 | 1 | 5.3 |
• Children’s | 5 | 3.1 | 1 | 5.3 |
Admitted as a boarder to a ward not related to their speciality | 15 | 9.3 | 1 | 5.3 |
Complications during index admission | ||||
• Bleeding/haemorrhage | 4 | 2.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Cardiac | 4 | 2.5 | 1 | 5.3 |
• Respiratory | 4 | 2.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Abnormal laboratory test results | 4 | 2.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Urinary Retention | 3 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Fever/Sepsis | 3 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Altered Conscious State | 2 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Acute Kidney Injury | 2 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Hypotension | 2 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Pain | 2 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Anxiety | 1 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Cancer | 1 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Pseudo seizure | 1 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
• Malnutrition | 1 | 0.6 | 1 | 5.3 |