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Postsurgical complications occur in 3% to 17% of surgeries and lead to substantial additional cost per patient. Although evidence supports quality improvement initiatives to prevent surgical complications, implementation of such initiatives has been variable. Researchers retrospectively compared hospital costs and revenue between surgical patients who sustained one or more potentially preventable major postsurgical complications (surgical site infections, wound disruptions, sepsis, venous thromboembolism, stroke, myocardial infarctions, cardiac arrests, pneumonia, ventilator use for ≥96 hours, or other infections) and those without such complications in a large multihospital system (>34,000 surgical patients in 12 hospitals, including commu…