Interaction of Surgeon Volume and Nurse-to-Patient Ratio on Post-operative Outcomes of Medicare Beneficiaries Following Pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Anghela Z ParedesJ Madison HyerDiamantis I TsilimigrasKota SaharaSusan WhiteTimothy M Pawlik

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2019)

Compared with patients who underwent an operation by a surgeon in highest PD volume tier, patients treated by surgeons in the lowest tier had higher odds of post-operative complications which was not mitigated by a higher nurse-to-patient ratio.

Keyphrases

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metabolic syndrome
health insurance
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