Researchers performed a retrospective study of the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program, which followed approximately 59,000 patients undergoing colorectal, Arthroplasty, vascular or gynecologic procedures between January 2005 and August 2009. They found patients with a surgical site infection were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days 55.7 percent of the time. Overall, the surgical complication rate for the study population was 22.6 percent.
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Patients with respiratory complications were only readmitted 8.7 percent of the time, which was lower than the overall 30-day readmission rate among all patients, with or without complications, which was 11.9 percent.
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