Postoperative mortality analysis on nationwide data from diagnosis procedure combination database in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The present study aimed to investigate the postoperative mortality due to all surgeries at the prefectural level using a nationwide diagnosis procedure combination (DPC) database in Japan and to evaluate the data according to temporal changes and regional differences.

Methods

Data were provided in accordance with the guidelines indicated on the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan. The number of cases and in-hospital mortality were calculated for each representative surgery for each hospitalization according to fiscal year of discharge from 2011 to 2018 and according to prefecture. Values of ≥10 in each aggregated data cell were presented.

Results and discussion

The aggregated result data contain 474,154 records, with about 2,000 different surgica

SUBMITTER: Kunisawa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10249857 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature