Association of Hospital Length of Stay and Complications With Readmission After Open Pancreaticoduodenectomy - PubMed (original) (raw)

Association of Hospital Length of Stay and Complications With Readmission After Open Pancreaticoduodenectomy

Jerry Jiang et al. JAMA Surg. 2019.

Abstract

This study uses data from the American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Program databases to evaluate associations between hospital length of stay and postoperative complications with hospital readmission among patients who underwent open pancreaticoduodenectomy.

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