Hess et al. demonstrated that bleeding in hemorrhagic shock and its resulting consequences are the most common preclinical avoidable cause of death [ 4].
Smoking is one of the most common and avoidable contributing factors to cardiovascular death.
Coronary heart disease is still overall the most common single cause of avoidable death, having fallen proportionately more for men than women.
In patients with a comorbidity of heart failure, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, or chronic kidney disease, the most common diagnosis of potentially avoidable readmission was acute heart failure.
Heart failure was, however, the single most common primary diagnosis of avoidable readmission in patients with five of the seven studied comorbidities: chronic heart failure, ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease (and was essentially tied for the most common diagnosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
The most common causes for death were avoidable, substance-related followed by suicide.
Conclusions The five most common primary diagnoses of potentially avoidable readmissions were usually possible complications of an underlying comorbidity.
The most common antecedent cause of death among potentially avoidable perinatal deaths reported by the PMMRC and perinatal deaths reported in the SAE reports, was hypoxic peripartum death, which occurred in 40 of 216 (18.5%) PMMRC reported cases and 11 of the 28 (39%) perinatal SAE reported cases.
Therefore, our aim was to evaluate the primary diagnoses and patterns of 30 day readmissions and potentially avoidable readmissions according to the most common comorbidities in medical patients.
After we restricted the analyses to the potentially avoidable readmissions only, the three most common primary readmission diagnoses were infection (11.6%; n=99), neoplasm (8.4%; n=72), and heart failure (7.1%, n=61) (table 3).
