Why the study?
Reducing surgical costs is paramount to hospital viability, but variation in intraoperative and postoperative utilization for common general surgery procedures needed to be understood.
Surgeons are significant drivers of variation in surgical supply costs and procedure time, but much less so for postoperative length of stay.
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Substantial surgeon variation in utilization for common procedures merits targeted review; leaves open whether feedback safely curbs costs.
Childers et al. (2019) studied this question.
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