Problems at home after surgery? Go back to same hospital, study says

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - When patients have complications after surgery, it’s best to go back to the hospital where the operation was done, a new study suggests. Patients who go instead to a hospital that didn’t do the original operation have a higher risk of death, the researchers found. "Even when we accounted for how sick patients were, what type of hospital they went to, and how far they traveled for care, we still found that patients had higher mortality rates when they had post-operative care at a different facility," said the study's lead author, Dr. ...



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