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July 4, 2016Annals of Surgery

Postoperative 30-day Readmission

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Population

237,441 inpatient general, vascular, and orthopedic surgeries from the National Veterans Affairs Surgical…

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Cohort

Follow-up

30-day

Authors

MMMelanie S. MorrisLGLaura A. GrahamJRJoshua Richman

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Overview

Preoperative factors yield modest discharge prediction; hypothesis-generating for targeted interventions, prospective validation needed before practice change.

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Population
237,441 inpatient general, vascular, and orthopedic surgeries from the National Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (2008-2014)
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Outcome
30-day unplanned readmission

Preoperative patient factors are the most important predictors of 30-day postoperative readmission available at the time of discharge, though overall prediction remains difficult.

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Morris et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a865483ae12ed54832fdb95https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000001855
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