Earned Outcomes Correlate with Reliability-Adjusted Surgical Mortality after Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair and Predict Future Performance

Cumulative, probability-based metrics are regularly used to measure quality in professional sports, but these methods have not been applied to health care delivery. These techniques have the potential to be particularly useful in describing surgical quality, where case volume is variable and outcomes tend to be dominated by statistical “noise”. The established statistical technique used to adjust for differences in case volume is reliability-adjustment which emphasizes statistical “signal”but has several limitations.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research