Risk factors for readmission after elective colectomy: Postoperative complications are more important than patient and operative factors

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 98-104

  Kerwel, Therese G ^a   Leichtle, Stefan W ^b   Asgeirsson, Theodor ^a   Hendren, Samantha K ^c   Cleary, Robert K ^b   Luchtefeld, Martin A ^a  

^a SPECTRUM HEALTH   (United States)

^b Saint Joseph Mercy Health System   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon resection; Complications; Postoperative readmissions; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; DELIRIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ILEUS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SMOKING; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND DEHISCENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LAPAROSCOPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

AGED; COLECTOMY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 84893434694     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000000007     Document Type: Article

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