Duty Hour Reform and the Outcomes of Patients Treated by New Surgeons.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of the study was to address the controversy surrounding the effects of duty hour reform on new surgeon performance, we analyzed patients treated by new surgeons following the transition to independent practice.

Summary background data

In 2003, duty hour reform affected all US surgical training programs. Its impact on the performance of new surgeons remains unstudied.

Methods

We studied 30-day mortality among 1,483,074 Medicare beneficiaries undergoing general and orthopedic operations between 1999 and 2003 ("traditional" era) and 2009 and 2013 ("modern" era). The operations were performed by 2762 new surgeons trained before the reform, 2119 new surgeons trained following reform and 15,041 experienced surgeons. We used a difference-in-differences anal

SUBMITTER: Kelz RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6861619 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature