Importance Discharge disposition is a patient-centered quality metric that reflects differences
in quality of life and recovery following surgery. The effect of hospital volume on quality of …

Background Minority-serving hospitals have greater readmission rates after operative
procedures including colectomy; however, little is known about the contribution of hospital …

Background Although a significant proportion of patients are readmitted to non-index
hospitals after surgery, risk factors for non-index hospital readmission are not well defined …

Background: Little is known about hospital use of postacute care after surgery and whether it
is related to measures of surgical quality. Research Design: We used data merged between …

Importance Increasing regionalization of cancer surgery has the inadvertent potential to lead
to fragmentation of care if readmissions occur at a facility other than the index hospital. The …

Physicians and surgeons face increasing pressure to demonstrate patient-centered care
through performance metrics. Although surgeons have been providing patient-centered care …

Background Hospital readmission after major surgery is a costly problem that has been
associated with patient characteristics. Because hospitals are incentivized to join …

Background The use of post-acute care is common among the elderly and accounts for $62
billion in annual Medicare expenditures. However, little is known about post-acute care use …

Objective To compare risk-and volume-adjusted outcomes of colon resections performed at
teaching hospitals (THs) vs non-THs to assess whether benign disease may influence the …

Importance Emergency general surgery (EGS) represents 11% of hospitalizations, and
almost half of these hospitalized patients are older adults. Older adults have high rates of …