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. 2019 Feb 7;16:E16. doi: 10.5888/pcd16.180189

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A flow chart shows how the final sample was developed. Patients who died (n = 1,101), readmission encounters (n = 949), and patients with other exclusions (eg, oncology, nonclinical encounters) (n = 2,393) were subtracted from all patient encounters (n = 25,717) for a final sample of 21,274. — Selection criteria for the predictive model for all inpatient encounters (N = 25,717) collected from 2 urban hospitals in Hawai’i. Abbreviation: PPR, potentially preventable readmission.