Keio University and others have announced that the subsequent mortality rate of patients who underwent emergency surgery on the surgeon's birthday was 1.2 times higher than that of patients who underwent non-birthday surgery, based on American medical data.
The research group says that the quality of health care should not be affected, but that doctors who work in situations that can be distracting need to be reviewed.
Groups such as Keio University and the University of California used medical data from the elderly in the United States to examine the association between emergency surgery performed by more than 47,000 surgeons in the four years to 2014 and patient deaths. The results were published in a British medical journal.
According to the report, 2064 surgeons performed on their birthdays, 145 people died within 30 days, while there were about 980,000 non-birthday surgeries and about 50,000 died. There were 5,000 people.
When the mortality rate was analyzed based on the patient's age and chronic illness, it was 6.9% for patients who underwent surgery on the surgeon's birthday, which was about 1.2 times higher than 5.6% for other patients. I will.
The research group wants to verify it in Japan as it is a difference that cannot be ignored.
Associate Professor Yusuke Tsugawa of the University of California, Los Angeles, who conducted the research, said, "The personal life of a doctor should not affect the quality of medical care, but the way doctors work in situations that can be distracting should be reviewed. You should consider helping. "