Impact of Hospital Affiliation With a Flagship Hospital System on Surgical Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare general surgery outcomes at flagship systems, flagship hospitals, and flagship hospital affiliates versus matched controls.

Summary background data

It is unknown whether flagship hospitals perform better than flagship hospital affiliates for surgical patients.

Methods

Using Medicare claims for 2018 to 2019, we matched patients undergoing inpatient general surgery in flagship system hospitals to controls who underwent the same procedure at hospitals outside the system but within the same region. We defined a "flagship hospital" within each region as the major teaching hospital with the highest patient volume that is also part of a hospital system; its system was labeled a "flagship system." We performed 4 main comparisons: patients treated at any f

SUBMITTER: Ramadan OI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10926994 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature