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the problem is this method encourages hospitals and doctors to avoid taking the difficult cases. lets say you have a complicated problem which only has a 25% s
by adrianbye 14y ago
the problem is this method encourages hospitals and doctors to avoid taking the difficult cases.
lets say you have a complicated problem which only has a 25% success rate. but due to these statistical models, nobody will do the procedure for you, since it will skew their results. what do you do?
- Ntrails 14y agoCan you not simply modify the way in which you calculate the statistics? Since doctors tend, as I understand it, to state the expected success rate to patients before surgery - this could be used as a factor in the reporting. A more confident surgeon might be willing to quote a higher success rate, which would attract more patients (or patients willing to pay more) but would be more punishing were he shown to be incorrect. Obviously this is very vague, and whilst I work with statistics I don't deal in medicine. But the difference between a surgeon/hospitals success rate and the expected success rate seems like a good measure of competence?