OBJECTIVESOne goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to reduce hospital readmissions, with financial penalties applied for excessive rates of unplanned readmissions within 30 days among Medicare beneficiaries. Recent data indicate that as many as 24% of Medicare patients require readmission following vascular surgery, although the rate of readmission following limited digital amputations has not been specifically examined. The present study was therefore undertaken to define the rate of unplanned readmission among patients following digital amputations, and to identify the factors associated with these readmissions to allow the clinician to implement strategies to reduce readmission rates in the future.
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