Readmissions after pancreatic and liver surgery

A plan for avoiding readmissions after surgery.

A Medicaid patient is admitted to the hospital for repair of an enterocutaneous fistula. He’s considered a high risk for readmission after surgery because he doesn’t have a working refrigerator or telephone. That means he won’t be able to keep fresh food on hand or call his physician if he has problems. More likely, he’ll go to the emergency room and become a readmission. To avoid that result, ...

Re: Adverse events and readmissions after day-case urological surgery.

Adverse events and readmissions after day-case urological surgery.

OBJECTIVE The literature lacks of studies on postoperative outcomes after urological ambulatory surgery. Our study aims to identify parameters associated with postoperative complications within 30 days after ambulatory urological surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Adjusted and unadjusted comparisons between clinical features and postoperative outcome (complicated and uncomplicated). RESULTS Pos...

Unplanned revisits and readmissions after ambulatory sinonasal surgery.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determine rates and reasons for revisits after adult ambulatory sinonasal surgery. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of multi-state ambulatory surgery and hospital databases. METHODS Ambulatory adult sinonasal procedures were extracted from the State Ambulatory Surgery Databases for New York, Florida, Iowa, and California for 2010. Cases were linked to the State Em...

Return hospital visits and hospital readmissions after ambulatory surgery.

OBJECTIVE To determine the overall and complication-related readmission rates within 30 days after ambulatory surgery at a major ambulatory surgical center. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Currently in North America, 65% of the surgical procedures are carried out in ambulatory settings. The safety of ambulatory surgery is well documented, with low rates of adverse events during or immediately after s...