Why the study?
Do patient safety events increase the risk of readmission and death in adult surgery patients?
Population
Almost 1.5 million adult surgery patients initially treated in 1088 short stay hospitals, at risk for at…
Comparison
Occurrence of at least one patient safety event vs No patient safety event
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
3 months
Authors
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Safety events associated with higher readmission risk after surgery; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation before guiding practice.
Do patient safety events increase the risk of readmission and death in adult surgery patients?
Patient safety events during hospitalizations for surgery significantly increase the risk of subsequent readmission and in-hospital death.
Friedman et al. (2009) studied this question.
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