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A single risk-adjusted summary of a surgeon's results risks giving spurious credibility to analyses that ignore non-patient influences.

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surgical outcomes Measuring and publishing how individual surgeons and hospitals perform, and what those numbers can honestly support.

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  1. David Spiegelhalter

    Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge

    The use of a single risk adjusted number to summarise a surgeon's results runs the risk of lending a level of spurious credibility to an analysis that does not take into account the impact of influences that are not patient related.

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