Background Surgical mortality increases significantly with age. Wide variations in mortality
rates across hospitals suggest potential levers for improvement. Failure-to-rescue has been …

Background Mobile health (mHealth) technology has been proposed as a method of
improving post-discharge surveillance. Little is known about how mHealth has been used to …

Complex older patients represent about half of all acute public hospital admissions in
Australia. People with dementia are a classic example of complex older patients, and have …

Objective: This analysis aimed to compare failure to rescue (FTR) after
pancreatoduodenectomy across the Atlantic. Summary Background Data: FTR, or mortality …

BACKGROUND The relative contribution of specific postoperative complications on mortality
after emergency operations has not been previously described. Identifying specific …

Elderly patients frequently present with surgical emergencies to health care providers, and
outcomes in this group of patients remain poor. Contributing factors include frailty …

Background Failure to rescue (FTR) is increasingly recognized as an important quality
indicator in surgery. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database was used to …

Importance To evaluate and financially reward general surgery residency programs based
on performance, performance must first be defined and measureable. Objective To assess …

Introduction Elderly patients form a growing subset of the acute care surgery (ACS)
population. Older age may be associated with poorer outcomes for some elective …

Objective: To examine the extent to which multiple, sequential complications impacts
variation in institutional postoperative mortality rates. Background: Failure to rescue (FTR) …