Why the study?
Does a low 30-day hospital readmission rate correlate with low 30-day mortality for complex surgical procedures?
Population
1,090,071 patients undergoing 7 complex procedures across 299 hospitals in California from 1995 to 2009.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30-day
Authors
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Readmission rates alone inadequately reflect surgical quality; leaves open whether mortality-inclusive metrics improve hospital benchmarking.
Does a low 30-day hospital readmission rate correlate with low 30-day mortality for complex surgical procedures?
Hospital readmission rate alone is a limited measure of quality due to its poor correlation with mortality rates, as many hospitals with expected or low readmission rates have high mortality rates.
Parina et al. (2014) studied this question.
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