Measuring potentially avoidable hospital readmissions - Halfon, Patricia; Eggli, Yves; van Melle, Guy; Chevalier, Julia; Wasserfallen, Jean-Blaise; Burnand, Bernard (Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2002)
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