Hospital readmissions following surgery: Turning complications into "treasures"

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 313, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 467-468

  Leape, Lucian L ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BYPASS SURGERY; CATHETER INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MEDICATION ERROR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM RESECTION; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84922476772     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.18666     Document Type: Editorial

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