Preventable hospital deaths after urological surgery rising: study

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Preventable hospital deaths after urological surgery rising: study

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) â€" As more urological surgeries are performed outside hospitals, deaths from preventable complications among men and women getting inpatient surgery have risen, according to a new study. It’s likely that older, sicker and poorer people make up more of the population having inpatient surgery, not that the surgeries are getting more dangerous, researchers say. “Our present findings provide evidence of a major shift in the type of patients being admitted for urological surgery,” lead author Dr. Jesse Sammon told Reuters Health. “Historically, a much larger proportion of relatively healthy urology patients were admitted for low-risk procedures.” Sammon, a urologist at the VUI Center for Outcomes Research, Analytics and Evaluation at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, and his coauthors used data on all hospital discharges of patients undergoing low-risk surgeries like transurethral resection of the prostate and bladder biopsy, which included almost eight million surgeries between 1998 and 2010.

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