Population
785,467 anesthesia procedures from 2011 to 2016 across 233 anesthetizing locations in 20 facilities in 2 US…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
48 hours
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Perianesthetic mortality appears low in this private practice cohort with no anesthesia-related deaths; leaves open generalizability and the value of QA databases for rare-event tracking.
In a large community-based practice in the Southeastern US, the rate of anesthesia-related mortality was extremely low at approximately 0.5 per 100,000 cases.
Pollard et al. (2018) studied this question.
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