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1 Hospital Readmission Is Associated With Poor Survival After Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer 
Felix G. Fernandez, MD, Onkar Khullar, MD, Seth D. Force, MD, Renjian Jiang, MPH, Allan Pickens, MD, David Howard, PhD, Kevin Ward, PhD, MPH, Theresa Gillespie, PhD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages (January 2015) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Proportion of readmissions within 30 days of discharge, stratified by day after discharge. (Curve indicates normal [mu = 12.226; sigma = ].) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier overall survival curves for patients readmitted to the hospital within 30 days (red line) after hospital readmission after esophagectomy, compared with patients not readmitted (blue line) to the hospital during that period. A significant difference was noted between the survival curve (p = , log rank test). (Hatch marks = censored.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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