Hospital experience predicts outcomes after high-risk geriatric surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Geriatric patients require specialized perioperative care, yet the impact of geriatric surgery proportion (a measure of experience) and geriatric surgery volume, on clinical outcomes is unknown. This study analyzes the association between proportion and volume and clinical outcomes after high-risk geriatric surgery.

Methods

Using the 2014 National Inpatient Sample, hospital encounters for older adults (≥65 years) undergoing high-risk geriatric surgery were identified. Geriatric surgery volume was defined as a hospital's annual volume of geriatric patients undergoing high-risk geriatric surgery. Geriatric surgery proportion was calculated as volume divided by the sum of high-risk surgeries in all ages. Hierarchical multivariable regression models identified predict

SUBMITTER: Dworsky JQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8019519 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature