Serious adverse event rates and reoperation after arthroscopic shoulder surgery: population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide clinicians and patients with accurate risk estimates of serious adverse events after common elective shoulder arthroscopic procedures, including reoperation within one year.

Design

Population based cohort study.

Setting

Hospital Episode Statistics for NHS England, including civil registration mortality data from the Office for National Statistics.

Participants

288 250 arthroscopic shoulder procedures performed in 261 248 patients aged ≥16 years between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2017. Elective procedures were grouped into subacromial decompression, rotator cuff repair, acromioclavicular joint excision, glenohumeral stabilisation, and frozen shoulder release.

Main outcome measures

The primary outcomes were rates of serious adverse even

SUBMITTER: Rees JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9258605 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature