Predictors of Hospital Readmission After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting – Reflections and Perspectives

Aspects such as the high cost of health care, the overload of health professionals, and the aging population with the consequent increase in chronic diseases highlight the need for attention to quality in highly complex cardiovascular care, especially in cardiac surgery. In this scenario, quality indicators are an extremely important instrument in the evaluation of care.

There are several quality indicators currently available, and one of them is the hospital readmission rate, which can be seen as an outcome often used as secondary and, despite being quite promising, depends on the methodology used to collect the data.

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