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Publication of surgeon-specific outcomes should transition to compulsory institutional reporting.
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Discusses the controversy and challenges of publishing individual surgeon mortality rates, highlighting the difficulty in separating individual skill from institutional care quality.
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Alderson et al. (2014) studied this question. Publication of surgeon-specific outcomes should transition to compulsory institutional reporting.
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