Open AccessReadmissions after Pancreatic Surgery in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer: Does Hospital Variation Exist for Quality Measurement?
Author(s) -
ChingYu Wang,
Joshua Brown
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
visceral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.598
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2297-475X
pISSN - 2297-4725
DOI - 10.1159/000502894
Subject(s) - medicine , complication , intraclass correlation , pancreatic cancer , emergency medicine , cancer , psychometrics , clinical psychology
The appropriateness of using readmission rate after pancreatic surgery among pancreatic cancer patients as a quality metric to evaluate hospital performance has been widely discussed in the literature.