Multiple complications and short length of stay are associated with postoperative readmissions

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 449-456

  Kohlnhofer, Brittney M ^a   Tevis, Sarah E ^a   Weber, Sharon M ^a   Kennedy, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

General surgery; Postoperative; Readmission

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BENIGN TUMOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLON CANCER; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENERAL SURGERY; HERNIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERALIMENTATION; HYPERTENSION; ICD-9; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PANCREAS CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SMOKING; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND;

GENERAL SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE; READMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84896946809     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.10.022     Document Type: Article

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