Erschienen in:
28.04.2021 | Invited Commentary
The Public may be Right: Should We Reconsider Minimum Surgeon Volumes?
verfasst von:
Quan-Yang Duh
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 7/2021
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Excerpt
The interesting survey study by Danforth and colleagues showed a significant difference between what the public expect and what professional organizations endorse regarding minimum annual surgeon volume for specific operations [
1]. This survey used Amazon Mechanical Turk online crowd-source market (MTurk) and recruited 2024 respondents. Most survey respondents (81%) agreed that there should be a minimum annual case volume for a surgeon to perform specific operations. Furthermore, the majority (59%) of survey respondents expected that the more complex operations (such as pancreaticoduodenectomy) should have a higher annual case volume requirement than the simpler operations (such as inguinal hernia repair). The medium numbers estimated by the survey respondents for minimum annual surgeon operative volume is 24 for pancreaticoduodenectomy and 10 for inguinal hernia repair. This is the opposite of annual minimal surgeon case volume of 5 for pancreaticoduodenectomy and 25 for Inguinal hernia repair endorsed by some professional organizations and payers [
2]. …
