High-performance acute care hospitals: Excelling across multiple emergency general surgery operations in the geriatric patient.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the geriatric population grows, the need for hospitals performing high quality emergency general surgery (EGS) on older patients will increase. Identifying clusters of high-performing geriatric emergency general surgery hospitals would substantiate the need for in-depth analyses of hospital-specific structures and practices that benefit older EGS patients. The objectives of this study were therefore to identify clusters of hospitals based on mortality performance for geriatric patients undergoing common EGS operations and to determine if hospital performance was similar for all operation types.

Methods

Hospitals in the California State Inpatient Database were included if they performed a range of eight common EGS operations in patients 65 years or older, with a

SUBMITTER: DeWane MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7656193 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature