Abstract
Failure to rescue is defined as death after an acute inpatient event and has been observed among hospitals that perform general, vascular, and cardiac surgery. This study aims to evaluate variation in complication and failure to rescue rates among hospitals that perform pulmonary resection for lung cancer. By using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database, a retrospective, multicenter cohort study was performed of adult patients with lung cancer who underwent pulmonary resection. Hospitals participating in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database were ranked by their risk-adjusted, standardized mortality ratio (using random effects logistic regression) and grouped into quintiles. Complication and failure to rescue rates were evaluated across 5 groups (very low, low, medium, high, and very high mortality hospitals). Between 2009 and 2012, there were 30,000 patients cared for at 208 institutions participating in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database (median age, 68 years; 53% were women, 87% were white, 71% underwent lobectomy, 65% had stage I). Mortality rates varied over 4-fold across hospitals (3.2% vs 0.7%). Complication rates occurred more frequ...Continue Reading
References
Feb 1, 1992·American Journal of Public Health·E S FisherD C Hsia
Oct 22, 2002·JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association·Linda H AikenJeffrey H Silber
Sep 25, 2003·JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association·Linda H AikenJeffrey H Silber
Jun 21, 2005·Lancet·Ken HillmanUNKNOWN MERIT study investigators
Mar 29, 2006·Critical Care and Resuscitation : Journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine·M Buist, R Bellomo
May 15, 2007·Medical Care·Kathryn M McDonaldPatrick S Romano
Feb 5, 2008·The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery·Daniel J BoffaCameron D Wright
Sep 2, 2008·Annual Review of Medicine·John D Birkmeyer, Justin B Dimick
Feb 18, 2009·Archives of Surgery·Jeffrey H SilberKevin G Volpp
Oct 3, 2009·The New England Journal of Medicine·Amir A GhaferiJustin B Dimick
Apr 21, 2010·Surgery·Christopher R FrieseLinda H Aiken
Aug 25, 2010·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·Benjamin D KozowerCameron D Wright
Aug 31, 2010·Journal of the American College of Surgeons·Amir A GhaferiJustin B Dimick
Jan 14, 2011·Journal of the National Cancer Institute·Angela B MariottoMartin L Brown
Jan 13, 2012·CA: a Cancer Journal for Clinicians·Rebecca SiegelAhmedin Jemal
May 23, 2012·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·Damien J LaParBenjamin D Kozower
May 29, 2012·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·Sara K PasqualiJ William Gaynor
May 30, 2012·BMC Health Services Research·Hideo YasunagaShinya Matsuda
Jun 30, 2012·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·Farhood FarjahNabil P Rizk
Sep 19, 2012·Archives of Surgery·Marko BukurAli Salim
Oct 26, 2012·Annals of Surgery·Elise H LawsonClifford Y Ko
Nov 13, 2012·The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery·Castigliano M BhamidipatiDavid R Jones
May 7, 2013·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·Haritha G ReddyRichard L Prager
Jun 5, 2013·Annals of Surgical Oncology·D HennemanM W J M Wouters
Jun 28, 2013·BMJ Open·Shyam SukumarQuoc-Dien Trinh
Sep 4, 2013·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·Mitchell J MageeBenjamin D Kozower
May 6, 2014·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·Farhood FarjahDouglas E Wood
Citations
Mar 10, 2015·The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery·Benjamin D Kozower
Jun 28, 2016·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·Fred H EdwardsDavid M Shahian
Sep 25, 2016·The Journal of Surgical Research·Emily Earl-RoyalDaniel N Holena
Oct 25, 2016·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·Henning A GaissertG Alexander Patterson
Nov 6, 2018·Health Affairs·Margaret E SmithAmir A Ghaferi
May 16, 2019·The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery·Justin S HatchimonjiDaniel N Holena
Dec 19, 2018·BMJ Open·Cornelia M UlrichThomas K Varghese
Sep 9, 2020·Journal of Clinical Oncology : Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology·Raymond U Osarogiagbon
Aug 9, 2020·Journal of Clinical Oncology : Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology·Farhood FarjahBenjamin D Kozower
Jun 28, 2018·World Journal of Surgery·Shuichi ShinoharaFumihiro Tanaka
Jul 7, 2020·General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery·Hideomi IchinokawaKenji Suzuki
Jan 27, 2020·Archivos de bronconeumología·María Teresa Gómez-HernándezMarcelo F Jiménez
Apr 1, 2021·Medicine·Lijun YaoCheng Zhang
Jul 6, 2017·The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery·Whitney S BrandtDavid R Jones
Aug 5, 2021·BMJ Open Quality·Kim-Lin ChiewShalini K Vinod
Jun 5, 2020·Archivos de bronconeumología·M A Teresa Gómez HernándezMarcelo F Jiménez López