TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fernandez, Stephen J
AU  - Mete, Mihriye
AU  - Shara, Nawar M
TI  - Postoperative wound dehiscence: Predictors and associations
SN  - 1067-1927
PY  - 2015///
KW  - *Comorbidity
KW  - *Surgical Wound Dehiscence/di [Diagnosis]
KW  - *Wound Healing
KW  - Humans
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Patient Safety
KW  - Postoperative Period
KW  - Predictive Value of Tests
KW  - Surgical Wound Dehiscence/pa [Pathology]
KW  - Surgical Wound Dehiscence/th [Therapy]
KW  - United States
KW  - United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
KW  - MedStar Health Research Institute
KW  - MedStar Washington Hospital Center
KW  - MedStar Heart Institute
KW  - Journal Article
KW  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
KW  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
KW  - Validation Studies
N2  - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality patient safety indicators (PSI) were developed as a metric of hospital complication rates. PSI-14 measures postoperative wound dehiscence and specifically how often a surgical wound in the abdominal or pelvic area fails to heal after abdominopelvic surgery. Wound dehiscence is estimated to occur in 0.5-3.4% of abdominopelvic surgeries, and carries a mortality of up to 40%. Postoperative wound dehiscence has been adopted as a surrogate safety outcome measure as it impacts morbidity, length of stay, healthcare costs and readmission rates. Postoperative wound dehiscence cases from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample demonstrate 9.6% excess mortality, 9.4 days of excess hospitalization and
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/wrr.12268
ER  -