ArticlePediatric surgery international2019
Readmission within 30 days of discharge (ReAd): a quality-of-care indicator in paediatric surgery.
Article in Pediatric surgery international, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Comparison of Percutaneous Internal Ring Suturing (PIRS) versus Open Ligation of the Patent Processus Vaginalis for the Treatment of Communicating Pediatric Hydrocele.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of postoperative complications and readmissions after appendectomy in children.Updates in surgery · 2023Article
- Effects of routinely collected health information system variables on the readmission of patients with type 2 diabetes.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2021Article
- Prognostic Factors Associated with Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Appendectomies in Children: A Multilevel Analysis in a National Retrospective Cohort Study.World journal of surgery · 2020Article
- Unplanned Pediatric Surgical Readmissions: Insights from a 3-year Study at a Tertiary Care Center.Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric SurgeonsArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeFollowing a previously published 1 year audit of readmissions, this is a reaudit of our readmission rate (ReAd) in paediatric surgery, asking: is ReAd reproducible, can it be an indicator of quality of care in paediatric surgery, and can it be improved?
methodProspectively collected Hospital Episode statistics were used to identify readmissions over 1 year. Patients were subdivided into emergency vs elective regarding the first admission and outcomes compared including with our previously published ReAd data.
results2616 children (67% male) were admitted during 2016: 1398 (53%) elective and 1218 (47%) emergency admissions. The overall ReAd was 0.9%, comparable to and lower than our previously published rate of 2%. The commonest cause for readmission was appendicitis-related (22%). The emergency cohort ReAd was 1.5% (18/1218) compared to 0.4% (5/1398) in the elective cohort, 4× higher (p = 0.002). In the emergency cohort, the commonest causes for readmission were abdominal pain and perforated appendicitis. 80% of elective group readmissions were related to urological procedures. More of these required surgical intervention to treat (80% vs 22%) (p = 0.03).
conclusion(1) ReAd is a reproducible and reducible quality-of-care indicator in paediatric surgery. (2) Emergency admission is a risk factor for readmission. (3) Appendicectomy was associated with the highest ReAd.
Indexed as
Identifiers
30778702What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.