Nearly one in seven patients bounces back to the hospital after major surgery, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The researchers used national Medicare data to calculate 30-day readmission rates after several major procedures, among them pulmonary lobectomy, colectomy, hip replacement, coronary-artery bypass grafting and open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm. The researchers found:

 

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