Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (2013)

Re:Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for electiv... by savagedata on Saturday January 11, 2020 @11:39AM (#22020755)

The problem is with multiple-day recovery periods after the surgery. The later in the week your surgery is scheduled, the more likely you'll overlap with the weekend when care is hypothesized to be lower quality.

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Re:Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for electiv... by danbolt on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:18PM (#22023739)

Part of me also wonders if people who elect to have Monday surgeries are in a better socioeconomic place to take more time off to recover.

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Re:Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for electiv... by joncrane on Monday January 13, 2020 @09:18AM (#22034616)

I've had a bunch of surgeries and I wasn't given much of a choice as to when they were scheduled. These were orthopedic surgeries, but nothing urgent (stuff like a labrum repair or whatever). I was simply told to be at the hospital/surgery center at X time and that was that.

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