July 16, 2016Annals of Surgery

Variation and Impact of Multiple Complications on Failure to Rescue After Inpatient Surgery

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266,101 patients within the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program who underwent…

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30-day

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NMNader N. MassarwehNorthwestern University DADaniel A. AnayaNovartis (Switzerland)PKPanagiotis KougiasAgricultural Research Organization

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Sequential complications may drive FTR variation; leaves open whether rescue protocols can reduce mortality.

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266,101 patients within the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (2000-2014) who underwent high-mortality inpatient general, vascular, or thoracic procedures

Outcome

30-day mortality (Failure to rescue)hard clinical

Failure to rescue occurs predominantly among patients with multiple complications, exhibiting a dose-response relationship across all hospital performance quintiles.

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Massarweh et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a70ef8cac440176ef299e18 https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000001917

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