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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open, 2017
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Aesthetic surgery journal, Jan 14, 2017
Hospital readmissions can be a major contributor to increased healthcare costs and are a salient ... more Hospital readmissions can be a major contributor to increased healthcare costs and are a salient current topic in healthcare. There is a paucity of large, prospective studies that evaluate rates and risk factors of readmission within the aesthetic subset of plastic surgery. The authors propose to determine the rates of unplanned readmission following body contouring procedures and to analyze the predictors associated with it. The 2011 and 2012 National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database was queried for body contouring procedures using the appropriate Current Procedural Terminology codes. The rate of unplanned readmission, preoperative risk factors, comorbidities, and medical and surgical postoperative complications data were analyzed using multivariate regression models to determine predictors of readmission after these procedures. We identified 5100 patients who underwent body contouring procedures, of which 142 (2.8%) experienced an unplanned readmission. Forty-eight pe...
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