Causes and Timing of Unplanned Early Readmission After Neurosurgery.

Background: Reducing the rate of 30-day hospital readmission has become a priority in healthcare quality improvement policy, with a focus on better characterizing the reasons for unplanned readmission. In neurosurgery, however, peer-reviewed analyses describing the patterns of readmission have been limited in their number and generalizability.

Objective: To determine the incidence, timing, and causes of 30-day readmission after neurosurgical procedures.

Variability in outcome after elective cerebral aneurysm repair in high-volume academic medical centers.

Background And Purpose: Unruptured intracranial aneurysm repair is the most commonly performed procedure for the prevention of hemorrhagic stroke. Despite efforts to regionalize care in high-volume centers, overall results have improved little. This study aims to determine the effectiveness in improving outcomes of previous efforts to regionalize unruptured intracranial aneurysm repair to high-volume centers and to recommend future steps toward that goal.