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- Title
Hospital Readmissions Following Surgery.
- Authors
Leape, Lucian L.
- Abstract
The article discusses research being done on hospital readmission rates in the U.S. It references the study "Underlying Reasons Associated with Hospital Readmission Following Surgery in the United States," by R. P. Merko et al. in the 2015 issue of "JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Associations." The researchers considered various variables including the reasons for readmission for surgery, the complications from surgical procedures, and the problem of iatrogenic injury in patients.
- Subjects
SURGERY; SURGICAL complications; IATROGENIC diseases; HOSPITAL care
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2015, Vol 313, Issue 5, p467
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2014.18666