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The relationship between duration of stay and readmissions in patients undergoing bariatric surgery.
Lois, Alex W; Frelich, Matthew J; Sahr, Natasha A; Hohmann, Samuel F; Wang, Tao; Gould, Jon C.
Afiliação
  • Lois AW; Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
  • Frelich MJ; Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
  • Sahr NA; Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
  • Hohmann SF; University HealthSystem Consortium, Comparative Data and Informatics Research, Chicago, IL; Department of Health Systems Management, Rush University, Chicago, IL.
  • Wang T; Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
  • Gould JC; Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. Electronic address: jgould@mcw.edu.
Surgery ; 158(2): 501-7, 2015 Aug.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26032831
BACKGROUND: Hospital readmissions are a quality indicator in bariatric surgery. In recent years, duration of stay after bariatric surgery has trended down greatly. We hypothesized that a shorter postoperative hospitalization does not increase the likelihood of readmission. METHODS: The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) is an alliance of academic medical centers and affiliated hospitals. The UHC's clinical database contains information on inpatient stay and returns (readmissions) up to 30 days after discharge. A multicenter analysis of outcomes was performed by the use of data from the January 2009 to December 2013 for patients 18 years and older. Patients were identified by bariatric procedure International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes and restricted by diagnosis codes for morbid obesity. RESULTS: A total of 95,294 patients met inclusion criteria. The mean patient age was 45.4 (±0.11) years, and 73,941 (77.6%) subjects were female. There were 5,423 (5.7%) readmissions within the study period. Patients with hospitalizations of 3 days and more than 3 days were twice and four times as likely to be readmitted than those with hospitalizations of one day, respectively (P < .001). CONCLUSION: Patients with longer postoperative hospitalizations were more likely to be readmitted after bariatric surgery. Early discharge does not appear to be associated with increased readmission rates.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Readmissão do Paciente / Obesidade Mórbida / Cirurgia Bariátrica / Tempo de Internação Tipo de estudo: Clinical_trials / Evaluation_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Readmissão do Paciente / Obesidade Mórbida / Cirurgia Bariátrica / Tempo de Internação Tipo de estudo: Clinical_trials / Evaluation_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article