Complications and Failure to Rescue After Inpatient Noncardiac Surgery in the Veterans Affairs Health System
Complications and Failure to Rescue After Inpatient Noncardiac Surgery in the Veterans Affairs Health System
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DOI:
10.1001/jamasurg.2016.2920
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发表时间:
2016-12-01
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16.9
通讯作者:
Wilson, Mark A.
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Massarweh, Nader N.;Kougias, Panagiotis;Wilson, Mark A.
IMPORTANCE The quality of surgical care in the Veterans Health Administration improved markedly in the 1990s after implementation of the Veterans Affairs (VA) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (now called the VA Surgical Quality Improvement Program). Although there have been many recent evaluations of surgical care in the private sector, to date, a contemporary global evaluation has not been performed within the VA health system.OBJECTIVE To provide a contemporaneous report of noncardiac postoperative outcomes in the VA health system during the past 15 years.DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A retrospective cohort study was conducted using data from the VA Surgical Quality Improvement Program among veterans who underwent inpatient general, vascular, thoracic, genitourinary, neurosurgical, orthopedic, or spine surgery from October 1, 1999, through September 30, 2014.MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Rates of 30-day morbidity, mortality, and failure to rescue (FTR) over time.RESULTS Among 704 901 patients (mean [SD] age, 63.7 [11.8] years; 676 750 [96%] male) undergoing noncardiac surgical procedures at 143 hospitals, complications occurred in 97 836 patients (13.9%), major complications occurred in 66 816 (9.5%), FTR occurred in 12 648 of the 97 836 patients with complications (12.9%), FTR after major complications occurred in 12 223 of the 66 816 patients with major complications (18.3%), and 18 924 patients (2.7%) died within 30 days of surgery. There were significant decreases from 2000 to 2014 in morbidity (8202 of 59 421 [13.8%] vs 3368 of 32 785 [10.3%]), major complications (5832 of 59 421 [9.8%] vs 2284 of 32 785 [7%]), FTR (1445 of 8202 [17.6%] vs 351 of 3368 [10.4%]), and FTR after major complications (1388 of 5832 [23.8%] vs 343 of 2284 [15%]) (trend test, P