Age and sex of surgeons and mortality of older surgical patients: observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether patients' mortality differs according to the age and sex of surgeons.

Design

Observational study.

Setting

US acute care hospitals.

Participants

100% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65-99 years who underwent one of 20 major non-elective surgeries between 2011 and 2014.

Main outcome measure

Operative mortality rate of patients, defined as death during hospital admission or within 30 days of the operative procedure, after adjustment for patients' and surgeons' characteristics and indicator variables for hospitals.

Results

892 187 patients who were treated by 45 826 surgeons were included. Patients' mortality was lower for older surgeons than for younger surgeons: the adjusted operative mortality rates w

SUBMITTER: Tsugawa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5915700 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature