Objective To determine whether the occurrence of “never events” after major surgical
procedures is affected by patient and disease characteristics and by the type of operation …

Importance Little empirical evidence exists on how a first (index) complication influences the
risk of specific subsequent secondary complications. Understanding these risks is important …

Objectives: To assess whether hospital rates of secondary complications could serve as a
performance benchmark and examine associations with mortality. Background: Failure to …

Hypothesis Complications are common in hospitalized surgical patients. Provider error
contributes to a significant proportion of these complications. Design Surgical patients were …

Background Registering complications is important in surgery, since complications serve as
outcome measures and indicators of quality of care. Few studies have addressed the …

Objectives: To compare the recording of 30-day postoperative complications between a
national clinical registry and Medicare inpatient claims data and to determine whether the …

Background Hospital mortality that is associated with inpatient surgery varies widely.
Reducing rates of postoperative complications, the current focus of payers and regulators …

BACKGROUND: Postoperative complications are a significant source of morbidity and
mortality. There are limited studies, however, assessing the impact of common postoperative …

Mortality rates are the most widely used measure in assessing patient outcome from
hospitalization. However, they may be an insensitive measure of quality for surgical patients …

BACKGROUND The relative contribution of specific postoperative complications on mortality
after emergency operations has not been previously described. Identifying specific …