To improve overall safety and reduce harm, focus should be on reducing risk instead of eliminating harm.
For patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting there is no mortality difference between volatile anaesthesia and TIVA.
Patient post-operative mortality was lowest for those treated by older surgeons.
In-patient care from a female physician is associated with lower 30 day mortality and readmission rate among elderly patients.
Increasing surgeon age is almost linearly associated with decreases in patient death, readmission & post-operative complications.
Interestingly that the difference disappeared when only high-volume physicians were considered, suggesting a very believable link between clinical volume and quality maintenance.
Patients treated by older physicians experience higher 30-day mortality than with younger physicians.
Treatment from female surgeons is associated with a lower 30 day mortality than the same from male surgeons.
Care from male surgeons and/or anaesthesiologists is associated with longer lengths of stay after cardiac surgery.
Female heart-attack patients are less likely to survive when treated by a male physician than a female physician.
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