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Most surgeons do not do enough cases over their entire careers to be meaningfully compared to their peers. There was a big paper about this recently. The rating
by et2o 10y ago
Most surgeons do not do enough cases over their entire careers to be meaningfully compared to their peers. There was a big paper about this recently. The ratings are a sham meant to instill false confidence.
- mrestko 10y agoCan you link the paper?
- et2o 10y agoI can't remember what journal it was published in and google isn't helping. I found this for hospital-level comparisons (these should be much more accurate due to far larger numbers): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4250275/#!po=2.94118 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4250275/#!po=2.... However: "Most commonly reported outcome measures have low reliability for differentiating hospital performance."