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BMC Health Services Research BioMed Central Research article Open Access A qualitative examination of inappropriate hospital admissions and lengths of stay 1 †2 †2 Christina L Hammond* , Lorraine L Pinnington and Margaret F Phillips Address: 1Rehabilitation Research and Education Group, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Derby, UK and 2Rehabilitation Research and Education Group, School of Graduate Entry Medicine Health, University of Nottingham, Derby, UK Email: Christina L Hammond* - mcxclh@nottingham.ac.uk; Lorraine L Pinnington - l.pinnington@nottingham.ac.uk; Margaret F Phillips - margaret.phillips@nottingham.ac.uk * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 5 March 2009 Received: 9 May 2008 Accepted: 5 March 2009 BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:44 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-44 This article is available from: /1472-6963/9/44 © 2009 Hammond et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Research has shown that a number of patients, with a variety of diagnoses, are admitted to hospital when it is not essential and can remain in hospital unnecessarily. To date,