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.
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.
Weiss et al. (Wed,) studied this question.