Tonsilar XXXX and re-admission: a questionnaire based study.

@entity1 @entity86 @entity548
The aim of our study was to investigate the accuracy of @entity548 rate in the community (i.e., actual rate versus hospital recorded rate) for tonsil operations. Bleeding episodes were investigated for 695 consecutive @entity1 undergoing tonsillectomy, adenotonsillectomy and tonsillotomy at the Department of ORL, H_NS, MU of Graz, Austria, between January 1 2007 and June 30 2008 by questionnaire. Main purposes of our study were the evaluation of the incidence of @entity86 , need for revision surgery, medical care of @entity1 experiencing @entity86 and multiple @entity548 episodes. @entity548 was defined as any @entity548 , be it minimal or significant, after extubation. The study group comprised 407 @entity1 who answered the questionnaire: 61.7% adults, 22.1% school @entity1 between 6 and 15  years and 16.2% @entity1 aged less than 6  years. Exactly 100 @entity1 (24.6% of 407) showed some kind of @entity86 , but only 79 of them (19.4% of 407) were recorded at hospital. A return to theatre due to @entity548 was required in 4.7% of all 407 cases. Combining hospital records and data from the questionnaire allowed us to estimate an overall @entity548 rate of 21.4% for all 695 @entity1 . Every fifth @entity1 experiencing @entity86 did not return to the hospital he or she was operated in. We would have missed 21.0% of all @entity548 episodes by assessing re-admitting @entity1 suffering @entity86 only. We conclude that @entity548 rate is considerably higher than assumed by investigating hospital records only and strongly related to the @entity86 and to the study design.
