Table 3 Most common reasonsa for unplanned rehospitalizations
From: Postoperative rehospitalization in older surgical patients: an age-stratified analysis
Age (18–49) | Age (50–64) | Age (65–74) | Age + 75 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | p-value | |
Symptoms/disease of the digestive system | 10,667 (26.34) | 12,109 (20.17) | 8964 (17.87) | 7653 (15.99) | < 0.0001 |
Surgical site infection | 8801 (21.73) | 11,454 (19.08) | 7572 (15.09) | 4520 (9.44) | < 0.0001 |
#Injury/poisoning/external causes | 2384 (5.89) | 4226 (7.04) | 3507 (6.99) | 3464 (7.24) | < 0.0001 |
Symptoms/disease of the respiratory system | 1326 (3.27) | 2710 (4.51) | 3043 (6.07) | 3883 (8.11) | < 0.0001 |
Endocrine/nutritional/metabolic | 1508 (3.72) | 2214 (3.69) | 1834 (3.66) | 1735 (3.63) | 0.8791 |
Symptoms/disease of the circulatory system | 851 (2.10) | 2662 (4.43) | 3147 (6.27) | 4240 (8.86) | < 0.0001 |
Symptoms/disease of the nervous system | 1560 (3.85) | 1650 (2.75) | 1254 (2.50) | 979 (2.05) | < 0.0001 |
Sepsis | 1167 (2.88) | 2017 (3.36) | 1933 (3.85) | 1904 (3.98) | < 0.0001 |
$General symptoms and signs | 995 (2.46) | 1537 (2.56) | 1408 (2.81) | 1569 (3.28) | < 0.0001 |
Urinary tract infection | 494 (1.22) | 982 (1.64) | 1170 (2.33) | 1601 (3.35) | < 0.0001 |