Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if their emergency surgery takes place on the surgeon's birthday
New study finds elderly patients whose emergency surgery took place on the surgeon's birthday were 23% more likely to die within a month.
Hasnain says:
correlation != causation and all other biases not withstanding, this is pretty insane
“The 30-day mortality rate (defined as death within 30 days after surgery) for the “surgeon’s birthday” group was 6.9%. This was 23% higher than the 5.6% rate for the “other day” group.”
Posted on 2020-12-17T05:24:34+0000