Contributors to Increased Mortality Associated With Care Fragmentation After Emergency General Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Care fragmentation at time of readmission after emergency general surgery (EGS) is associated with high mortality; however, the factors underlying this finding remain unclear.

Objective

To identify patient and hospital factors associated with increased mortality among patients after EGS readmitted within 30 days of discharge to a nonindex hospital.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort study using the 2014 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Readmissions Database. Participants were all adult patients (18 years or older) who underwent 1 of the 15 most common EGS procedures in the United States from January 1 to November 30, 2014, and survived to discharge. The dates of analysis were October through December 2019.

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SUBMITTER: McCrum ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7376477 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature