TY - JOUR T1 - Emergency readmission to hospital is inadequate as a measure of care quality and a poor prognostic sign in haematology patients JF - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care JO - BMJ Support Palliat Care SP - 8 LP - 8 DO - 10.1136/bmjspcare-2011-000158 VL - 2 IS - 1 AU - D Stangoe AU - A E Milne Y1 - 2012/03/01 UR - http://spcare.bmj.com/content/2/1/8.abstract N2 - Shortly after taking office, the current government stated its intention to regard readmission to hospital within 30 days as indicative of a previous failed discharge and unworthy of payment.1 This position was reiterated by the Health Secretary in the lay media as the ‘perverse situation at the moment where a hospital might discharge patients too soon and when the patient comes back as an emergency, the hospital gets paid again’.2 Using non-elective readmission as a measure of care quality, we conducted a retrospective audit of … ER -