Is there a disparity in mortality outcomes between elderly and young patients following Emergency General Surgery procedures across hospitals?
There is a disparity in hospital-level mortality outcomes for elderly versus young patients undergoing emergency general surgery, highlighting the need to investigate care processes.
Elderly patients are at substantially greater risk for adverse events following EGS procedures. Hospitals had only slight agreement in mortality outcomes in the elderly compared with those in young patients. Processes of care that may account for this disparity should be further investigated.
Ingraham et al. (Wed,) studied this question.