Top-tier emergency general surgery hospitals: Good at one operation, good at them all.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a longstanding interest in the field of management science to study high performance organizations. Applied to medicine, research on hospital performance indicates that some hospitals are high performing, while others are not. The objective of this study was to identify a cluster of high-performing emergency general surgery (EGS) hospitals and assess whether high performance at one EGS operation was associated with high performance on all EGS operations.

Methods

Adult patients who underwent one of eight EGS operations were identified in the California State Inpatient Database (2010-2011), which we linked to the American Hospital Association database. Beta regression was used to estimate a hospital's risk-adjusted mortality, accounting for patient- and hos

SUBMITTER: DeWane MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6771423 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature