A patient-centered textbook outcome measure effectively discriminates contemporary elective open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair quality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is persistent controversy surrounding the merit of surgical volume benchmarks being used solely as a sufficient proxy for assessing the quality of open abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. Importantly, operative volume quotas may fail to reflect a more nuanced and comprehensive depiction of surgical outcomes most relevant to patients. Accordingly, we herein propose a patient-centered textbook outcome (TO) for AAA repair that is analogous to other large magnitude extirpative operations performed in other surgical specialties, and test its feasibility to discriminate hospital performance using Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) volume guidelines.

Methods

All elective open infrarenal AAA repairs (OAR) in the SVS-Vascular Quality Initiative were examined (200

SUBMITTER: Felsted A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11416335 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature