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[et2o]

Most surgeons do not do enough cases over their entire careers to be meaningfully compared to their peers. There was a big paper about this recently. The ratings are a sham meant to instill false confidence.

[mrestko → et2o]

Can you link the paper?

[et2o → mrestko]

I can't remember what journal it was published in and google isn't helping.

I found this for hospital-level comparisons (these should be much more accurate due to far larger numbers): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4250275/#!po=2....

However: "Most commonly reported outcome measures have low reliability for differentiating hospital performance."