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Length of Stay and Readmissions in Mastectomy Patients

The Breast Journal, 2015
Interest is growing in preventing readmissions as payers start to link reimbursement to readmission rates. The purpose of this study was to assess factors that contribute to 30-day readmission rates for women undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer.
Anna N. Leung, Peter W. Dillon, Christopher S. Hollenbeak, Susie X. Sun   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Short‐ and Long‐Term Outcomes of Open, Laparoscopic, and Robot‐Assisted Surgery for Rectal Cancer

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Robot‐assisted rectal resection demonstrated superior short and long‐term outcomes compared to laparoscopic and open approaches. ABSTRACT Background Robot‐assisted surgery has short‐term benefits in rectal cancer surgery; however, its long‐term advantages remain unclear. This study compared short‐ and long‐term outcomes of open, laparoscopic, and robot‐
Marie Hanaoka, Hiroyasu Kagawa, Ataru Igarashi, Hiroshi Yoshihara, Shinichi Yamauchi, Masanori Tokunaga, Lin Peng‐Lin, Minkyung Shin, Yusuke Kinugasa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Variation in 30-Day Surgical Readmission in the Era of Accountable Care: Effect of the Patient, Surgeon, and Surgical Subspecialties.

JAMA Surgery, 2015
IMPORTANCE Readmission is a target area of quality improvement in surgery. While variation in readmission is common, to our knowledge, no study has specifically examined the underlying etiology of this variation among a variety of surgical procedures ...
F. Gani, Donald J. Lucas, Yuhree Kim, E. Schneider, T. Pawlik   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Characteristics of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Discharged and Experiencing Same-Hospital Readmission — United States, March–August 2020

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a complex clinical illness with potential complications that might require ongoing clinical care (1-3). Few studies have investigated discharge patterns and hospital readmissions among large groups of patients after
Amy Lavery, L. E. Preston, Jean Y. Ko, J. Chevinsky, Carla L. DeSisto, A. Pennington, Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, S. Datta, E. Click, Thomas Golden, Alyson B Goodman, W. M. Mac Kenzie, T. Boehmer, A. Gundlapalli   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of Length of Stay on Readmission in Hospitalized Patients [PDF]

Cureus, 2020
Background Readmission and length of stay (LOS) are two hospital-level metrics commonly used to assess the performance of hospitalist groups. Healthcare systems implement strategies aimed at reducing both. It is possible that tactics aimed at improving one measure in individual patients may adversely impact the other.
Eric Kupersmith, Elizabeth Cerceo, Snehal Gandhi, Kara S Aplin, Jean-Sebastien Rachoin   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Risk Evaluation of the NCD Risk Calculator for Open Pancreaticoduodenectomy in Elderly Patients: A Validation Study

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study investigated the utility of the Japanese NCD risk calculator for preoperative assessment in elderly patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), using a validation study design. In the training cohort, two preoperative factors—the predicted incidence of postoperative ADL decline ≥ 44.8% and Clavien–Dindo grade IV or higher complications
Nana Kimura, Ayaka Itoh, Ayano Sakai, Katsuhisa Hirano, Kenta Yagi, Naoya Takeda, Kazuto Shibuya, Isaku Yoshioka, Kenta Murotani, Tsutomu Fujii   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safety and Efficacy of Pelvic Reinforcement Procedure for Preventing Postoperative Perineal Hernia After Robotic Abdominoperineal Resection: A Single‐Center, Retrospective Cohort Study

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study aimed to investigate the safety and efficacy of pelvic reinforcement procedure (PRP) in robotic abdominoperineal resection (Ro‐APR). PRP‐ had a significantly higher rate of imaged perineal hernia (PH) (39.2% vs. 6.7%, p = 0.005) and symptomatic PH (19.6% vs.
Yoshihiro Sakai, Shunsuke Kasai, Akio Shiomi, Shoichi Manabe, Yusuke Yamaoka, Yusuke Tanaka, Takahiro Igaki, Hiroyasu Kagawa, Yusuke Kinugasa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Causes of Readmission to Emergency Departments of Hospitals Affiliated with Iran University of Medical Sciences

طب اورژانس ایران, 2019
Introduction: Readmission is among the causes of overcrowding in hospital emergency departments. Identifying the characteristics of patients with readmission helps healthcare administrators propose more effective strategies to reduce the frequency of ...
Ali Bidari, Reza Mosaddegh, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Mehdi Rezaei, Kamran Roboobiat   +4 more
doaj  

Who is High Risk Elderly Patient?

İstanbul Medical Journal, 2017
The acute and post-acute care of the elderly is a process fraught with problems. Elderly patients at high risk are individuals who have to be admitted more frequently to a hospital due to developed complications, who are faced with a constant risk of ...
Mehmet İlkin Naharcı
doaj   +1 more source

Case Report: Unusual Neurological Features of Leigh Syndrome due to m.8993T>G Pathogenic Variant in the MT‐ATP6 Gene

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The MT‐ATP6 gene m.8993T>G pathogenic variant has been associated with Leigh syndrome, especially in patients exhibiting a high degree of heteroplasmy. Although patients may present with a wide phenotypic spectrum, characteristic findings include bilateral, symmetric hyperintensities in the basal ganglia and brainstem on brain MRI ...
Ramya Treitel, Julie McLaughlin, Marta Frigeni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source