Association of Hospital Markup with Preventable Adverse Events Following Pancreatic Surgery in the United States

While increase of hospital-acquired adverse events (HAAE) after major cancer surgery, there is lack of data correlating them with hospitals markup-ratio (MR). We aim to study the relationship between hospital profit margins and the incidence of HAAE following pancreatic surgery nationally.

Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - October 22, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Rodrigo E. Alterio, Archana Bhat, Imad Radi, Sam C. Wang, Matthew R. Porembka, John C. Mansour, Adam C. Yopp, Herbert J. Zeh, Patricio M. Polanco Tags: Health Services Research Source Type: research