Patient-surgeon racial and ethnic concordance and outcomes of older adults operated on by California licensed surgeons: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association of patient-surgeon racial and ethnic concordance with postoperative outcomes among older adults treated by surgeons with California medical licences.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

US acute care and critical access hospitals in 2016-2019.

Participants

100% Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65-99 years who underwent one of 14 common surgical procedures (abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, appendectomy, coronary artery bypass grafting, cholecystectomy, colectomy, cystectomy, hip replacement, hysterectomy, knee replacement, laminectomy, liver resection, lung resection, prostatectomy and thyroidectomy), who were operated on by surgeons with self-reported race and ethnicity (21.4% of surgeons) in the Medical B

SUBMITTER: Shannon EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11877244 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature