Surgeons with a higher number of unprofessional behavior reports also had a significant increase in their patients' 30-day operative complication rates.
In the latest episode, Drs. Robert Kormos and David Morales join host Dr. Thomas K. Varghese Jr. to explore the motivation for developing registries that examine clinical outcomes and quality-of-life metrics for patients who received FDA-approved durable mechanical circulatory support devices.
CT surgery is one of the most technically, cognitively, and physically demanding fields. CT surgeon performance does correlate with patient outcomes, so this issue needs to be addressed in our field.