Factors associated with 30-day unplanned pediatric surgical readmission.

Background: Unplanned readmissions are costly to family satisfaction and negatively associated with quality of care. We hypothesized that patient, operative, and hospital factors would be associated with pediatric readmission.

Methods: All patients with an inpatient operation from 10/1/2008 to 7/28/2014 at a freestanding children's hospital were included.