Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Causes of and risk factors for unplanned readmission in a large cohort of patients undergoing major surgery: a retrospective cohort study
Authors' conclusion
Our study identified the causes of readmission after major surgery from a range of surgical specialties.
Study context
- Population
- Patients who underwent major surgery at the authors' institution, 1 May 2011 to 1 February 2022
- Participants
- 22,143 patients
- Outcome
- Unplanned readmission within 90 days of discharge after an index procedure: epidemiology, reasons and risk factors
- Follow-up
- 90 days
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Unplanned readmission · within 90 days of discharge
- Unplanned readmission
- 1801 (12%)
- Most common cause overall: wound complication (primary cause, readmissions)
- 232 (11%)
- Discharge haemoglobin < 100 g.l-1 associated with increased odds of unplanned readmission
- p < 0.001
- Hospital LOS 14-30 days associated with increased odds of unplanned readmission
- p < 0.001
- Charlson comorbidity index score ≥ 2 associated with increased odds of unplanned readmission
- p < 0.001
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Causes of and risk factors for unplanned readmission in a large cohort of patients undergoing major surgery: a retrospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. Published 16 February 2025. doi:10.
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