Introduction The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery proposed the perioperative mortality
rate (POMR) as one of the six key indicators of the strength of a country's surgical system …

Background: Validation of recorded data is a prerequisite for studies that utilize
administrative databases. The present study evaluated the validity of diagnoses and …

Evaluations of service delivery interventions with contemporaneous controls often yield null
results, even when the intervention appeared promising in advance. There can be many …

Objective: We sought to characterize the association between patient county-level
vulnerability with postoperative outcomes. Summary Background Data: Although the impact …

Importance Major postoperative complications and delirium contribute independently to
adverse outcomes and high resource use in patients who undergo major surgery; however …

Objective To demonstrate regression to the mean bias introduced by matching on preperiod
variables in difference‐in‐differences studies. Data Sources Simulated data. Study Design …

Objective: To define and test “Textbook Outcome”(TO)—a composite measure for healthcare
quality—among Medicare patients undergoing hepatopancreatic resections. Hospital …

Background Pythia is an automated, clinically curated surgical data pipeline and repository
housing all surgical patient electronic health record (EHR) data from a large, quaternary …

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Background The association of different social vulnerability subthemes (ie, socioeconomic
status, household composition and disability, minority status and language, and housing …