Early rehospitalization after kidney transplant caused by complexity of condition, not poor quality of care
Thursday, October 31, 2013 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
A study of over 750 kidney transplant patients over a five-year period has found that 90 percent of early rehospitalizations (within 30 days of surgery) were caused by complex medical factors related to the transplantation process. Only nine percent of rehospitalizations – which occurred among only three percent of the entire group of patients – were categorized as potentially preventable.