Variation by center and economic burden of readmissions after liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 953-960

  Wilson, Gregory C ^a   Hoehn, Richard S ^a   Ertel, Audrey E ^a   Wima, Koffi ^a   Cutler Quillin, R ^a   Hohmann, Sam ^b   Paterno, Flavio ^a   Abbott, Daniel E ^a   Shah, Shimul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN DONOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ALLOGRAFT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DONOR; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTICENTER STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFTS; DATA COLLECTION; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933525757     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.24112     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Readmissions Reduction Program. http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/AcuteInpatientPPS/Readmissions-Reduction-Program.html. Accessed April 2015.
2. Jencks SF, Williams MV, Coleman EA., Rehospitalizations among patients in the Medicare fee-for-service program. N Engl J Med 2009; 360: 1418-1428.
3. Ahmad SA, Edwards MJ, Sutton JM, Grewal SS, Hanseman DJ, Maithel SK, et al., Factors influencing readmission after pancreaticoduodenectomy: a multi-institutional study of 1302 patients. Ann Surg 2012; 256: 529-537.
4. Goodney PP, Stukel TA, Lucas FL, Finlayson EV, Birkmeyer JD., Hospital volume, length of stay, and readmission rates in high-risk surgery. Ann Surg 2003; 238: 161-167.
5. Lucas DJ, Haider A, Haut E, Dodson R, Wolfgang CL, Ahuja N, et al., Assessing readmission after general, vascular, and thoracic surgery using ACS-NSQIP. Ann Surg 2013; 258: 430-439.
6. Martin RC, Brown R, Puffer L, Block S, Callender G, Quillo A, et al., Readmission rates after abdominal surgery: the role of surgeon, primary caregiver, home health, and subacute rehab. Ann Surg 2011; 254: 591-597.
7. Schneider EB, Hyder O, Wolfgang CL, Hirose K, Choti MA, Makary MA, et al., Patient readmission and mortality after surgery for hepato-pancreato-biliary malignancies. J Am Coll Surg 2012; 215: 607-615.
8. Joynt KE, Orav EJ, Jha AK., Thirty-day readmission rates for Medicare beneficiaries by race and site of care. JAMA 2011; 305: 675-681.
9. Tsai TC, Joynt KE, Orav EJ, Gawande AA, Jha AK., Variation in surgical-readmission rates and quality of hospital care. N Engl J Med 2013; 369: 1134-1142.
10. Paterno F, Wilson GC, Wima K, Quillin RC 3rd, Abbott DE, Cuffy MC, et al., Hospital utilization and consequences of readmissions after liver transplantation. Surgery 2014; 156: 871-879.
11. Pereira AA, Bhattacharya R, Carithers R, Reyes J, Perkins J., Clinical factors predicting readmission after orthotopic liver transplantation. Liver Transpl 2012; 18: 1037-1045.
12. Shaw JJ, Santry HP, Shah SA., Specialization and utilization after hepatectomy in academic medical centers. J Surg Res 2013; 185: 433-440.
13. Macomber CW, Shaw JJ, Santry H, Saidi RF, Jabbour N, Tseng JF, et al., Centre volume and resource consumption in liver transplantation. HPB (Oxford) 2012; 14: 554-559.
14. Sutton JM, Hayes AJ, Wilson GC, Quillin RC 3rd, Wima K, Hohmann S, et al., Validation of the University HealthSystem Consortium administrative dataset: concordance and discordance with patient-level institutional data. J Surg Res 2014; 190: 484-490.
15. Quillin RC 3rd, Wilson GC, Wima K, Hohmann SF, Sutton JM, Shaw JJ, et al., Neighborhood level effects of socioeconomic status on liver transplant selection and recipient survival. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2014; 12: 1934-1941.
16. Wilson GC, Quillin RC 3rd, Wima K, Sutton JM, Hoehn RS, Hanseman DJ, et al., Is liver transplantation safe and effective in elderly (≥70 years) recipients? A case-controlled analysis. HPB (Oxford) 2014; 16: 1088-1094.
17. Hoehn RS, Wilson GC, Wima K, Hohmann SF, Midura EF, Woodle ES, et al., Comparing living donor and deceased donor liver transplant: a matched national analysis from 2007 to 2012. Liver Transpl 2014; 20: 1347-1355.
18. Kamath PS, Wiesner RH, Malinchoc M, Kremers W, Therneau TM, Kosberg CL, et al., A model to predict survival in patients with end-stage liver disease. Hepatology 2001; 33: 464-470.
19. Feng S, Goodrich NP, Bragg-Gresham JL, Dykstra DM, Punch JD, DebRoy MA, et al., Characteristics associated with liver graft failure: the concept of a donor risk index. Am J Transplant 2006; 6: 783-790.
20. Birkmeyer JD, Siewers AE, Finlayson EV, Stukel TA, Lucas FL, Batista I, et al., Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med 2002; 346: 1128-1137.
21. Singla A, Simons J, Li Y, Csikesz NG, Ng SC, Tseng JF, Shah SA., Admission volume determines outcome for patients with acute pancreatitis. Gastroenterology 2009; 137: 1995-2001.
22. Birkmeyer NJ, Gu N, Baser O, Morris AM, Birkmeyer JD., Socioeconomic status and surgical mortality in the elderly. Med Care 2008; 46: 893-899.
23. Diez Roux AV, Merkin SS, Arnett D, Chambless L, Massing M, Nieto FJ, et al., Neighborhood of residence and incidence of coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med 2001; 345: 99-106.
24. Salvalaggio PR, Dzebisashvili N, MacLeod KE, Lentine KL, Gheorghian A, Schnitzler MA, et al., The interaction among donor characteristics, severity of liver disease, and the cost of liver transplantation. Liver Transpl 2011; 17: 233-242.
25. Zou G., A modified Poisson regression approach to prospective studies with binary data. Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159: 702-706.
26. Hyder O, Dodson RM, Nathan H, Schneider EB, Weiss MJ, Cameron JL, et al., Influence of patient, physician, and hospital factors on 30-day readmission following pancreatoduodenectomy in the United States. JAMA Surg 2013; 148: 1095-1102.
27. Showstack J, Katz PP, Lake JR, Brown RS Jr, Dudley RA, Belle S, et al., Resource utilization in liver transplantation: effects of patient characteristics and clinical practice. NIDDK Liver Transplantation Database Group. JAMA 1999; 281: 1381-1386.
28. Finlayson EV, Goodney PP, Birkmeyer JD., Hospital volume and operative mortality in cancer surgery: a national study. Arch Surg 2003; 138: 721-725.
29. Reames BN, Ghaferi AA, Birkmeyer JD, Dimick JB., Hospital volume and operative mortality in the modern era. Ann Surg 2014; 260: 244-251.