Assessing national patterns and outcomes of pituitary surgery: is hospital administrative data good enough?

Adam J WahbaDavid A CromwellPeter John HutchinsonRyan K MathewNick Phillips

Published in: British journal of neurosurgery (2023)

The quality of HES data on pituitary surgery has improved over time but there is wide variation in the quality of data between neurosurgical units. Research studies and quality improvement programmes using these data need to check it is of sufficient quality to not invalidate their results.

Keyphrases

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