Patients, payers, policymakers, and clinicians are continually searching for the optimal
surgical quality indicator. Two such measures—failure to rescue and 30-day readmissions—have
recently gained considerable attention. For example, the National Quality Forum has
adopted failure to rescue as an independent surgical quality indicator, and payers
are increasingly focused on readmission rates in determining reimbursement models.
In this context, we sought to determine whether these two measures identify the same
hospitals.
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