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

Mental modelThe map is not the territory

What David Spiegelhalter actually said

  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.

    Where this was said

    ↗The legacy of Bristol: public disclosure of individual surgeons' results (with 5 co-authors)doi.org

    19 Aug 2004

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