CONSULTANT VIEWS ON SURGEONS' PERFORMANCE TABLES AND SEQUENTIAL MONITORING

Kessaris, N
Tekkis, P P
Saunders, M P
Boyle, N H

SpR, Maidstone Hospital, Kent (Kessaris)
Consultant Surgeon, St Mary's Hospital, London (Tekkis)
Consultant Surgeon, Eastbourne District General Hospital (Saunders)
Consultant Surgeon, Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells (Boyle)

Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 87(10):p 358-360, November 2005.

During 2004 the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland assessed individual cardiothoracic consultant surgeons' performance in an effort to provide more transparent and patient-centred healthcare. In the past crude mortality rates have been used to assess performance. However, in the future these figures will be risk-adjusted. This involves the use of statistical analysis (eg logistic regression), which takes into account different risk factors among the individual patients being compared.