The Surgeons Scorecard

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1. Ann Miller RN MHA, on July 15, 2015 at 11:51 AM said:

   Follow-up

   Whether consumers are choosing a car, a household appliance or even a nursing home, there are ratings and reviews available to make the best choice.

   http://healthjournalism.org/blog/2015/07/surgeons-complication-rates-become-public-with-new-database/

   But, patients are often blind when choosing a surgeon.

   http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2015/07/15/surgical-complication-rates-just-got-simple-medicineball-is-the-new-moneyball/

   Ann Miller RN MHA

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2. SAURABH JHA MD, on July 18, 2015 at 3:40 AM said:

   After Transparency

   Morbidity Hunter MD joins Cherry Picker MD.

   http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2015/07/17/after-transparency-morbidity-hunter-md-joins-cherry-picker-md/

   SAURABH JHA MD via Ann Miller R MHA

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3. Jeffrey Parks MD, on July 23, 2015 at 12:47 AM said:

   Why the Surgeon Scorecard is a journalistic low point for ProPublica

   http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/07/why-the-surgeon-scorecard-is-a-journalistic-low-point-for-propublica.html

   Jeffrey Parks MD via Ann Miller RN MHA

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4. Ann Miller RN MHA, on October 9, 2015 at 12:26 AM said:

   Surgeon’s Scorecard

   F/U – Misunderstanding Propublica:

   http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2015/10/08/misunderstanding-propublica/

   Ann Miller RN MHA

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5. Dr. David Marcinko MBA, on December 24, 2015 at 8:57 PM said:

   Complication Rates of 16,000+ Surgeons Published

   Using public data from the CMS Inpatient Limited Data Set, which includes every hospital visit by every Medicare patient in the study period, ProPublica journalists created a searchable database of surgical complications that resulted in deaths or readmissions within 30 days due to complications.

   The data set spans more than 200 variables, including the hospital, patient age, and gender, ICD-9 procedure and diagnosis codes, dates of admission, and discharge dates. Data journalists spoke to dozens of doctors, surgeons, and researchers who use the Medicare data, to develop the patient outcome measures used.

   While the tool was in development in 2014, CMS agreed to make unencrypted surgeon identifiers public for the first time, so that patients, procedures, complications, and surgeons could all be linked and examined by all.

   Source: Univadis [12/23/15]

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6. Clement, on October 3, 2018 at 12:26 AM said:

   A Surgeon So Bad It Was Criminal

   Via and By Laura Beil special to ProPublica

   Christopher Duntsch’s surgical outcomes were so outlandishly poor that Texas prosecuted him for harming patients. Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating?

   https://www.propublica.org/article/dr-death-christopher-duntsch-a-surgeon-so-bad-it-was-criminal?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter

   Clement

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