Patient mortality after surgery on the surgeon's birthday: observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether patient mortality after surgery differs between surgeries performed on surgeons' birthdays compared with other days of the year.

Design

Retrospective observational study.

Setting

US acute care and critical access hospitals.

Participants

100% fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 to 99 years who underwent one of 17 common emergency surgical procedures in 2011-14.

Main outcome measures

Patient postoperative 30 day mortality, defined as death within 30 days after surgery, with adjustment for patient characteristics and surgeon fixed effects.

Results

980 876 procedures performed by 47 489 surgeons were analyzed. 2064 (0.2%) of the procedures were performed on surgeons' birthdays. Patient characteristics, includi

SUBMITTER: Kato H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7726309 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature