Spinal surgeries more successful than reflected in public reported statistics: UCSF
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 21:02
in Health & Medicine
The odds that someone undergoing spinal surgery at a particular hospital will have to be readmitted to the same hospital within 30 days is an important measure of the quality of care patients receive. That's because these "hospital readmission rates" often reflect problems like hospital-acquired infections or complications from surgery.