Failure to Rescue in Emergency General Surgery: Impact of Fragmentation of Care

OBJECTIVE:Compare emergency general surgery (EGS) patient outcomes following index and non-index hospital readmissions, and explore predictive factors for non-index readmission. BACKGROUND:Readmission to a different hospital leads to fragmentation of care. The impact of non-index readmsision on pati...

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Published in:	Annals of surgery Vol. 277; no. 1; pp. 93 - 100
Main Authors:	Hanna, Kamil, Chehab, Mohamad, Bible, Letitia, Asmar, Samer, Ditillo, Michael, Castanon, Lourdes, Tang, Andrew, Joseph, Bellal
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Copyright Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved 01-01-2023
Subjects:	Adult Hospital Mortality Hospitals Humans Patient Discharge Patient Readmission Postoperative Complications Retrospective Studies Risk Factors
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