B.C. has second-highest hospital readmission rate in Canada; solutions elusive

B.C. medical experts are calling for a concerted effort to improve hospital readmission rates, in the wake of a report showing the province had the second highest such rate in Canada.
Hospital readmission rates have become a leading marker of health system performance around the world. When they are relatively high, as in the case of B.C., they are an indicator of “sub-optimal health care system performance,” a recent report in the B.C. Medical Journal says.
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