Hospital and skilled nursing facility responses to preventability
| Skilled nursing facility | |||||
| Unpreventable | Potentially preventable | Preventable | Total | ||
| Hospital | Unpreventable | 69 | 6 | 75 | |
| Potentially preventable | 30 | 14 | 2 | 46 | |
| Preventable | 3 | 4 | 7 | ||
| Total | 102 | 24 | 2 | 128 | |
| Spearman’s correlation=0.256, p=0.021 | |||||
Spearman’s rank-order correlation was conducted to determine the relationship between hospital’s and skilled nursing facilities' responses related to perceived preventability (preventable, potentially preventable or unpreventable) of a particular readmission (n=128). There was a weak, positive correlation between hospital’s and skilled nursing facilities' responses, which was statistically significant (rs=0.256, p=0.021).