A Look at Surgical Care in a State Correctional System —Unique and Informative but Incomplete

In the current issue of JAMA Surgery, Mao and coauthors at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) describe their experience of providing surgical care for a large number of incarcerated patients from the adjacent Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Hospital. They reported that incarcerated surgical patients had equivalent 30-day rates of mortality and readmission but a higher morbidity rate than the nonincarcerated surgical population.
Source: JAMA Surgery - Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research