Association Between Hospital Perioperative Quality and Long-term Survival After Noncardiac Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There is known variation in perioperative mortality rates across hospitals. However, the extent to which this variation is associated with hospital-level differences in longer-term survival has not been characterized.

Objective

To evaluate the association between hospital perioperative quality and long-term survival after noncardiac surgery.

Design, setting, and participants

This national cohort study included 654 093 US veterans who underwent noncardiac surgery at 98 hospitals using data from the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2016. Data were analyzed between January 1 and November 1, 2021.

Exposures

Hospitals were stratified separately into quintiles of reliability-adjusted failure to res

SUBMITTER: Portuondo JI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8771439 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature