MedScape writes: The majority of hospital admissions deemed preventable using the standardized Prevention Quality Indicator (PQI) were not rated preventable by physicians at the hospital, a new study finds. Instead, the physicians found a larger, mostly distinct group of admissions were preventable, researchers report in a study published online February 18 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. In fact, physicians and the PQI agreed on the preventability of only 10% of overall admissions, a concordance no different than what would be expected by chanc
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