Study: Association of Overlapping Surgery with Perioperative Outcomes

Association of Overlapping Surgery With Perioperative Outcomes – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Podcast: Is It Safe? What Happens When Your Surgeon Is Not Actually Doing Some of Your Operation? – JAMA (free)

Commentaries: How Safe Are Overlapping Surgeries? – Harvard Medical School (free) AND Double-Booked Surgeons: Study Raises Safety Questions For High-Risk Patients – NPR (free) AND ‘Overlapping surgery’ is safe for most patients, but not all – STAT (free)

Related Commentary on Twitter (Thread)

Who's doing your surgery?

Our new @JAMA_current study on the controversial practice of overlapping surgery & what it means for patients (led by @StanfordMed Eric Sun), using data on ~66,000 surgeries performed at 8 medical centers. Thread on findingshttps://t.co/JwH1bLCFUg

— Anupam Jena (@AnupamBJena) February 26, 2019