Profiles of institutional departments affect operative outcomes of eight gastroenterological procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

We evaluated the association of profiles of institutional departments with operative outcomes of eight major gastroenterological procedures.

Methods

We administered a 15-item online survey to 2634 institutional departments in 2016 to investigate the association of questionnaire responses with operative mortality for the procedures. The proportions of conditions met were listed according to institutional volume and classified according to annual operative cases in 1464 departments. Group A included departments with annual performance of <40 cases of the eight procedures, B 40-79 cases, C 80-199 cases, D 200-499 cases, and E ≥ 500 cases. We evaluated the number of conditions met for 10 of 15 items that could be improved by efforts of institutional departments, to assess wh

SUBMITTER: Konno H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8164461 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature