Abstract
In this month's issue, Deshpande et al. report on the relationship between severe persistent mental illness (SPMI) and surgical outcomes after inpatient mastectomy for breast cancer.1 The authors used the National Inpatient Sample from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and discovered that women with SPMI had a longer length of stay (LOS), were more likely to undergo bilateral mastectomies, less likely to undergo breast reconstruction, and that those who underwent reconstruction were at an increased risk of post-procedural infection and sepsis.
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