Thomas C Tsai, Karen E Joynt, E John Orav, Atul A Gawande, Ashish K Jha
BACKGROUND: Reducing hospital-readmission rates is a clinical and policy priority, but little is known about variation in rates of readmission after major surgery and whether these rates at a given hospital are related to other markers of the quality of surgical care. METHODS: Using national Medicare data, we calculated 30-day readmission rates after hospitalization for coronary-artery bypass grafting, pulmonary lobectomy, endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm, open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm, colectomy, and hip replacement...
September 19, 2013: New England Journal of Medicine