Reliability of Hospital-Level Mortality in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair

The relationship between volume and surgical outcome has been shown for a variety of surgical procedures. The effect in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair continues to be debated. Reliability adjustment has been used as a method to remove statistical noise from hospital level outcomes but its impact on aortic aneurysm repair is not well understood.

Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - September 15, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Craig S. Brown, John R. Montgomery, Gloria Y. Kim, Michael T. Kemp, Nicholas H. Osborne Source Type: research