Why the study?
Is the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program superior to the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database at performing analyses of risk-adjusted outcomes for several operations?
Is the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program superior to the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database at performing analyses of risk-adjusted outcomes for several operations?
The study aims to determine whether the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program or the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database is superior for analyzing risk-adjusted surgical outcomes.
Database choice for risk-adjusted surgical outcomes remains unresolved; leaves open whether NSQIP or NIS yields superior analyses.
This study compares the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program with the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database to determine which is superior at performing analyses of risk-adjusted outcomes for several operations.
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Weiss et al. (2015) studied this question.
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