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Another interesting article about the causes of readmissions and their prevention is in this month’s New England Journal of Medicine.  This article (The Relationship between Hospital Admission Rates and Rehospitalizations) explores the causality for readmissions, and reports on the factors showing the highest correlation with the readmission rate.  The authors found that the primary driver of the readmission rate was the overall “all-cause admission rate”, meaning that hospitals having high admissio

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Two recent Health Affairs articles have focused on different aspects of bundled payment programs, and appear to show different variations on opportunities for success.