Comparison of Rates and Outcomes of Readmission to Index vs Nonindex Hospitals After Major Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Increasing regionalization of cancer surgery has the inadvertent potential to lead to fragmentation of care if readmissions occur at a facility other than the index hospital. The magnitude and adverse effects of readmission to a facility other than the one where the surgery was performed are unclear.

Objectives

To assess rates of readmission to nonindex hospitals after major cancer surgery and to compare outcomes between index and nonindex hospital readmissions.

Design, setting, and participants

In this multicenter, population-based, nationally representative study of adult patients undergoing a major cancer operation (defined as esophagectomies or gastrectomies, hepaticobiliary resections, pancreatectomies, colorectal resections, or cystectomies), retrospe

SUBMITTER: Zafar SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6142950 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature