Rattan R, Cioci AC, Urréchaga EM, et al. - As previous studies of venous thromboembolism (VTE) after emergency general surgery (EGS) are not nationally representative nor do they fully incorporate readmissions to different hospitals. It was hypothesized that different-hospital readmission accounted for a significant number of readmissions with VTE after EGS and that there would be differences in predictive factors for same- and different-hospital readmissions. Researchers here queried the 2014 Nationwide Readmissions Database for nonelective EGS hospitalizations and identified 1,584,605 patients meeting inclusion criteria. Of these 1,584,605, 1.3% (n = 20,963) of patients were readmitted within 180 days with a VTE. One in three of these (28%; n = 5,866) ) were readmitted to a different hospital and may be missed by current quality metrics that only capture same-hospital readmission. Relative to public and nonprofit hospitals, for-profit hospital postoperative VTE rates may be underestimated by such metrics, which may potentially affect benchmarking and reimbursement. Postdischarge VTE rate is noted to be linked with insurance status.