Perioperative Stroke and Thirty-Day Hospital Readmission After Cardiac Surgeries: State Inpatient Database Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Readmission rates are an important metric for evaluating healthcare quality. Stroke is a major complication following cardiac surgery. Our study aimed to evaluate the frequency and predictors of 30-day unplanned hospital readmission after cardiac surgeries and to evaluate the impact of perioperative stroke on readmission.

Methods

Surgical discharge records spanning the years of 2008 through 2011 were analyzed utilizing California State Inpatient Database. International Classification of Diseases, ninth revision-Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes and Clinical Classification Software (CCS) codes were used to identify surgeries and variables of interest. Surgical records were then followed up for 30 days through linking admission records. Perioperative stroke was

SUBMITTER: Alrifai N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8827220 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature