Surgical risks associated with winter sport tourism.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mass tourism during winter in mountain areas may cause significant clustering of body injuries leading to increasing emergency admissions at hospital. We aimed at assessing if surgical safety and efficiency was maintained in this particular context.

Methods

We selected all emergency admissions of open surgery performed in French hospitals between 2010 and 2012. After identifying mountain areas with increasing volume of surgical stays during winter, we considered seasonal variations in surgical outcomes using a difference-in-differences study design. We computed multilevel regressions to evaluate whether significant increase in emergency cases had an effect on surgical mortality, complications and length of stay. Clustering effect of patients within hospitals was i

SUBMITTER: Sanchez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4430272 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature