Specific Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Group Codes Increase the Predictability of 30-Day Unplanned Hospital Readmission After Pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Dimitrios XourafasKatiuscha MerathGaya SpolveratoStanley W AshleyJordan M CloydTimothy M Pawlik

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2018)

Distinct pancreatectomy MS-DRG classification codes (405), combined with relevant clinicopathologic and perioperative characteristics, strongly predicted 30-day readmission after PD. DRG classification algorithms can be implemented to more accurately identify patients at a higher risk of readmission.

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