title: Incidence of unplanned return to the operating room following vitreoretinal surgery at a public teaching hospital.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the incidence of unplanned return to the operating room within 30 or 90 d following vitreoretinal surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hospital records of 431 patients undergoing vitreoretinal surgery at San Francisco General Hospital between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2009 were reviewed to determine the incidence of unplanned reoperations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Unplanned reoperation occurred within 30 d in 22 cases (3.77%) and within 90 d in 56 cases (9.61%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study establishes benchmarks for the rate of unplanned return to the operating room following vitreoretinal surgery at an urban teaching hospital. Measuring reoperation within 90 d may provide a useful quality improvement metric of short- and middle-term complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of California-San Francisco, 10 Koret Way, San Francisco, CA 94143-0730, USA. stewartj@vision.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Jay M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: Marcela M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Estrada
authors.forename: Travis C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Porco
mesh_terms: D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008485:Medical Audit; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012086:Reoperation / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012160:Retina / Q000601:surgery; D057586:Vitreoretinal Surgery / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000601:surgery