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Abstract
The study of readmission to Gamal Abdel Naser Hospital ln Alexandria was undertaken to fulfil the following items: ( 1) to measure the extent of this phenomenon, (2) identify the personal characteristics of the patients who were repeatedly admitted, as regards their age and sex, (3) the administrative features as their mode of admission, the clinical department .and the length of stay, (4) their medical characteristics in each admission as diagnosis, investig ations and treatment, and (5) to reveal the extent to which their admission is medically justified.
The hypothesis was that a patient who is readmitted to the hospital wi thin a short period of time may be an indication of the failure of the health care delivery system to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care of high quality, and the uneconomic use of the expens¬ive hospital resources.
The period within which a second admission was regarded as a readmission was variable among the various previous studies, yet it was crucial to the definition of readmiss¬lon. The definition of readmission in this study was taken