Bypass death study rankles California surgeons
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, July 18, 2007
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Patient Safety Monitor Alert!
A new study that shows how many patients die after heart bypass surgery has many California surgeons crying foul. The new measurement does not reflect a surgeon's abilities and may scare patients away or ruin reputations because of the small data size, according to critics quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article.
Surgeons are concerned that the public release of the data will cause surgeons to shy away from high-risk patients and procedures, which would lead to degraded care.
Prominent healthcare blog Kevin MD sees the article as evidence surgeons will walk away from difficult procedures, while the blog Running a Hospital believes that concern is overblown, and that the best surgeons will take on the toughest cases because they believe in their work.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Patient Safety Monitor Alert!
Related Products
-
Patient Safety Monitor
As part of your Patient Safety Monitor membership, you'll receive Briefings on Patient Safety. In this 12-page monthly...
-
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
This e-mail newsletter provides healthcare professionals with the latest patient safety news, while offering useful...
-
Patient Safety Quality Monthly
Ken Rohde, Senior Consultant for The Greeley Company with over 25 years of experience in quality management. His roles in...
-
Occurrence Reporting:
Take advantage of the information occurrence reports provide and make sustainable enhancements at your facility. Expert...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- HIPAA Q&A: Answering service messages
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Q&A: Coding for dry skin due to cold weather
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Are your workforce members texting PHI?
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Privacy, security concerns high in HIEs
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- E-mailed
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- HIPAA Q&A: Answering service messages
- HIPAA Q&A: TPO disclosures to a business associate
- Are your workforce members texting PHI?
- Q&A: Coding for dry skin due to cold weather
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Hospitalist-surgeon comanagement has no effect on outcomes
- Don't let these sentinel events trigger falsely
- Searched