Surgical readmissions often caused by new complications
Case Management Insider, February 24, 2015
A study in the February 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that patients often wind up back in the hospital after surgery due to new complications related to the procedure and not due to exacerbations of past problems.
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