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Re:Go to the Wrong Hospital and You’re 3 Times More Likely t... by et2o on Thursday December 15, 2016 @09:11PM (#13190524)
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.
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Re:Go to the Wrong Hospital and You’re 3 Times More Likely t... by mrestko on Thursday December 15, 2016 @09:30PM (#13190611)
Can you link the paper?
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Re:Go to the Wrong Hospital and You’re 3 Times More Likely t... by et2o on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:04PM (#13190755)
I 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....

However: "Most commonly reported outcome measures have low reliability for differentiating hospital performance."

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