Napaporn Kongkaewpaisan, Majed W El Hechi, Leon Naar, Haytham M A Kaafarani, Brittany O Aicher, Jose J Diaz, Lindsay B O'Meara, Cassandra Decker, Jennifer Rodriquez, Thomas Schroeppel, Rishi Rattan, Georgia Vasileiou, Daniel Dante Yeh, Ursula J Simonoski, David Turay, Daniel C Cullinane, Cory B Emmert, Marta L McCrum, Natalie Wall, Jeremy Badach, Anna Goldenberg-Sandau, Heather Carmichael, Catherine Velopulos, Rachel Choron, Joseph V Sakran, Khaldoun Bekdache, George Black, Thomas Shoultz, Zachary Chadnick, Vasiliy Sim, Firas Madbak, Daniel Steadman, Maraya Camazine, Martin D Zielinski, Claire Hardman, Mbaga Walusimbi, Mirhee Kim, Simon Rodier, Vasileios N Papadopoulos, Georgios Tsoulfas, Javier Martin Perez
BACKGROUND: Hospital readmission is an important quality-of-care indicator. We sought to examine the rates and predictors of unplanned readmission for the high-risk non-trauma emergency laparotomy patient. METHODS: This is a post hoc analysis of a multicenter prospective observational study. Between April 2018 and June 2019, a total of 19 centers enrolled all adult patients undergoing emergency laparotomies and systematically collected preoperative, operative, and 30-day postoperative variables...
January 8, 2021: Surgery