Post-Surgical Complications Treated Best at Same Hospital

Hospital readmissions are common for patients with complications who undergo major surgeries—nearly a quarter of patients are readmitted within 90 days of the procedure. In a national study that included 9 million Americans, researchers found that the hospital a patient returns to for readmission has an impact on the quality of care the patient receives.

The study, published in The Lancet, found that patients readmitted to the hospital with complications after a major surgery were 26% more likely to survive if they returned to the same hospital from which they received the surgery. Researchers took into account certain measures of surgical quality that can affect mortality, such as hospital size, teaching status, and volume of procedures, when analyzing the results as well as incorporated instrumental variable analyses to eliminate any potential unmeasured bias.

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