Surgery

Reports outline surgery research from Johns Hopkins University, Medical Department

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, October 9th, 2009

"The mechanism by which trauma systems improve mortality is unknown. may be influenced by experienced trauma surgeons treating more patients (surgeon effect) or improving the overall system of care (system effect)," scientists in the United States report.

"We hypothesized that mortality is lower in patients treated by a fellowship-trained senior trauma program director (experienced) vs first-year general surgery attending surgeon (novice) and that patient mortality for novice surgeons would improve after adding a new senior trauma director. Retrospective cohort study. Academic level I trauma center. Individuals who had experienced trauma. We concurrently compared...

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Source: Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly (2009-10-09)

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