Hospital Readmission Is Associated With Poor Survival After Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer Felix G. Fernandez, MD, Onkar Khullar, MD, Seth D. Force, MD, Renjian Jiang, MPH, Allan Pickens, MD, David Howard, PhD, Kevin Ward, PhD, MPH, Theresa Gillespie, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages 292-297 (January 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.07.052 Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Proportion of readmissions within 30 days of discharge, stratified by day after discharge. (Curve indicates normal [mu = 12.226; sigma = 8.2483].) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 99, 292-297DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.07.052) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier overall survival curves for patients readmitted to the hospital within 30 days (red line) after hospital readmission after esophagectomy, compared with patients not readmitted (blue line) to the hospital during that period. A significant difference was noted between the survival curve (p = 0.0015, log rank test). (Hatch marks = censored.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 99, 292-297DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.07.052) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions