Associations of postoperative mortality with the time of day, week and year

Anaesthesia
F KorkF Balzer

Abstract

Studies that have investigated circadian, weekday and seasonal variation in postoperative mortality have been relatively small or have been for scheduled surgery. We retrospectively tested a large mixed surgical cohort from a German tertiary care university hospital for the presence of cyclical variation in all-cause in-hospital mortality after operations performed between 2006 and 2013. We analysed mortality rates after 247,475 operations, adjusted for age, sex, comorbidities, location, urgency and duration of the surgery, and intra-operative blood transfusions. The mortality odds ratio (95%CI) after operations started in the morning (08:00-11:00) were lowest, 0.73 (0.66-0.80), p < 0.001 and highest for operations started in the afternoon (13:00-17:00), 1.29 (1.18-1.40), p < 0.001. Mortality at the weekend was the same as during the week. There was no seasonal variation in mortality, p = 0.12. However, the interference of four-yearly and ten-monthly cycle amplitudes resulted in higher mortality odds ratio (95%CI) in winter 2008-2009, 1.41 (1.18-1.69), p < 0.001, and lower mortality in spring 2011 and 2012, 0.70 (0.56-0.85) and 0.67 (0.53-0.85), p < 0.001 and p = 0.001, respectively. The ability to predict cyclical phenomena wo...Continue Reading

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