Nursing Home Patients Have More Post-Surgical Complications Than Their Peers
In the ever mounting pile of problems facing nursing home patients, we can now add another-- nursing home patients are more likely to die following gastrointestinal (GI) operations than their peers living independently. A study compared the mortality rates for nursing home patients who underwent six types of GI operations including: bleeding GDU's, benign colon disease, colon cancer, cholecystitis and appendicitis. After evaluating data from 30,721 nursing home patients and 1.18 million Medicare beneficiaries, the studies authors determined that nursing home patients are more than three times more likely to die following the surgical procedures than those living in the...
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