Open AccessReturn to Acute Care Following Ambulatory Surgery
Author(s) -
Claudia Steiner,
Melinda MaggardGibbons,
Susan Raetzman,
Marguerite L Barrett,
Greg D. Sacks,
Pamela L Owens
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2015.12210
Subject(s) - medicine , ambulatory , ambulatory care , health care , epidemiology , acute care , emergency medicine , medical emergency , population , intensive care medicine , surgery , environmental health , economics , economic growth
Return to Acute Care Following Ambulatory Surgery Two-thirds of operations are performed on an outpatient basis, yet little research has assessed their quality.14 Our population-based study found that 30-day revisits for clinically significant surgical site infections following ambulatory operations accounted for less than 15% of all-cause revisits to inpatient or ambulatory surgery settings.5 The reasons for other revisits and their relationship to the index operation are unknown. This study determined the rates of all-cause, unplanned revisits (ie, not for routine medical care) within 30 days of ambulatory surgery and whether revisits were related to the operation.
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