The influence of resident involvement on surgical outcomes.

Mehul Raval V; Xue Wang; Mark E Cohen; Angela M Ingraham; David J Bentrem; Justin B Dimick; Timothy Flynn; Bruce L Hall; Clifford Y Ko

Study

The influence of resident involvement on surgical outcomes.

January 30, 2005

Raval M, Wang X, Cohen ME, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2011;212(5):889-98.

View more articles from the same authors.

Surgical procedures performed with trainee physicians' involvement had a slightly higher incidence of complications, but a slightly lower risk of mortality.

PubMed citation

Available at

Related news article

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Underlying reasons associated with hospital readmission following surgery in the United States.

February 18, 2015

Outcomes of concurrent operations: results from the American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

October 11, 2017

Association of the 2011 ACGME resident duty hour reform with general surgery patient outcomes and with resident examination performance.

January 14, 2015

Association of the 2011 ACGME resident duty hour reform with postoperative patient outcomes in surgical specialties.

August 12, 2015

Association of surgical resident wellness with medical errors and patient outcomes.

May 6, 2020

Communication during interhospital transfers of emergency general surgery patients: a qualitative study of challenges and opportunities.

October 26, 2022

National cluster-randomized trial of duty-hour flexibility in surgical training.

February 10, 2016

Is it time for safeguards in the adoption of robotic surgery?

May 15, 2019

A case for improving measurement of intraoperative iatrogenic injuries.

July 23, 2014

Publicly available hospital comparison web sites: determination of useful, valid, and appropriate information for comparing surgical quality.

September 26, 2007

Hospital credentialing and privileging of surgeons: a potential safety blind spot.

April 15, 2015

Who is responsible for the safe introduction of new surgical technology? An important legal precedent from the da Vinci Surgical System Trials.

May 10, 2017

Is WHO's surgical safety checklist being hyped?

August 21, 2019

Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery.

October 14, 2009

Association of hospital participation in a regional trauma quality improvement collaborative with patient outcomes.

June 20, 2018

A checklist-based intervention to improve surgical outcomes in Michigan: evaluation of the Keystone Surgery program.

January 28, 2015

Improving safety and quality of care with enhanced teamwork through operating room briefings.

July 23, 2014

Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program is not associated with additional patient safety improvement.

December 4, 2019

Evaluation of the effectiveness of a surgical checklist in Medicare patients.

January 7, 2015

Hospital process compliance and surgical outcomes in Medicare beneficiaries.

October 27, 2010

Surgeon age and operative mortality in the United States.

October 25, 2006

Changes in hospital-acquired conditions and mortality associated with the hospital-acquired condition reduction program.

September 29, 2021

Association of hospital participation in a quality reporting program with surgical outcomes and expenditures for Medicare beneficiaries.

February 18, 2015

Early impact of the 2011 ACGME duty hour regulations on surgical outcomes.

January 13, 2016

Composite measures for profiling hospitals on bariatric surgery performance.

October 30, 2013

Teamwork, communication and safety climate: a systematic review of interventions to improve surgical culture.

June 10, 2015

A decade of preventing harm.

June 19, 2019

Evidence review conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: focus on anesthesiology for colorectal surgery.

May 9, 2018

Safety considerations in learning new procedures: a survey of surgeons.

January 31, 2018

Assessment of perioperative outcomes among surgeons who operated the night before.

June 8, 2022

Changes in hospital safety following penalties in the US Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program: retrospective cohort study.

July 24, 2019

Association between state medical malpractice environment and postoperative outcomes in the United States.

June 21, 2017

Optimal preoperative assessment of the geriatric surgical patient: a best practices guideline from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the American Geriatrics Society.

October 10, 2012

Specialist physicians' attitudes and practice patterns regarding disclosure of pre-referral medical errors.

August 9, 2017

American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 Update.

February 1, 2017

Understanding ultrarare adverse events - lessons learned from a twelve-year review of intraoperative deaths at an academic medical center.

June 21, 2023

Surgical skill and complication rates after bariatric surgery.

October 23, 2013

Changes in physician practice patterns after implementation of a communication-and-resolution program.

January 18, 2017

Importance of teamwork, communication and culture on failure-to-rescue in the elderly.

January 13, 2016

Isolation precautions for visitors.

April 29, 2015

Challenges faced in providing safe care in rural perinatal settings.

November 25, 2009

Factors contributing to Registered Nurse medication administration error: a narrative review.

March 18, 2015

Radio frequency identification applications in hospital environments.

August 16, 2006

Improving medication management through the redesign of the hospital code cart medication drawer.

January 18, 2012

RaDonda Vaught, medication safety, and the profession of pharmacy: steps to improve safety and ensure justice.

August 17, 2022

The "Seven Pillars" response to patient safety incidents: effects on medical liability processes and outcomes.

September 7, 2016

Clinical decision support for atypical orders: detection and warning of atypical medication orders submitted to a computerized provider order entry system.

June 25, 2014

Integrating human factors research and surgery: a review.

January 16, 2013

Dental patient safety in the military health system: joining medicine in the journey to high reliability.

August 7, 2019

Preventing pregnancy-related mental health deaths: insights from 14 US maternal mortality review committees, 2008-17.

October 20, 2021

A cross-sectional analysis investigating organizational factors that influence near-miss error reporting among hospital pharmacists.

August 27, 2014

Effect of number of open charts on intercepted wrong-patient medication orders in an emergency department.

May 30, 2018

Indication-based prescribing prevents wrong-patient medication errors in computerized provider order entry (CPOE).

March 13, 2013

Concepts for the development of a customizable checklist for use by patients.

July 1, 2015

Stroke hospitalization after misdiagnosis of "benign dizziness" is lower in specialty care than general practice: a population-based cohort analysis of missed stroke using SPADE methods.

July 21, 2021

Clinicians' perspectives on proactive patient safety behaviors in the perioperative environment.

April 26, 2023

Proactive patient safety: focusing on what goes right in the perioperative environment.

May 24, 2023

Association of emotional intelligence with malpractice claims: a review.

February 13, 2019

Structured interdisciplinary rounds in a medical teaching unit: improving patient safety.

April 20, 2011

Organisational crisis resource management: leading an academic department of emergency medicine through the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 7, 2020

Content analysis of patient safety incident reports for older adult patient transfers, handovers, and discharges: do they serve organizations, staff, or patients?

January 8, 2020

Dispensing errors and counseling quality in 100 pharmacies.

July 15, 2009

The risks to patient safety from health system expansions.

April 18, 2018

An assessment of basic patient safety skills in residents entering the first year of clinical training.

June 6, 2018

Quality improvement through implementation of discharge order reconciliation.

June 12, 2013

Reliability of verbal handoff assessment and handoff quality before and after implementation of a resident handoff bundle.

June 22, 2016

Impact of drug shortages on U.S. health systems.

August 3, 2011

Preventing mistransfusions: an evaluation of institutional knowledge and a response.

February 21, 2018

Associations between communication climate and the frequency of medical error reporting among pharmacists within an inpatient setting.

September 25, 2013

Associations between perceived crisis mode work climate and poor information exchange within hospitals.

February 4, 2015

Do patient safety indicators explain increased weekend mortality?

September 2, 2015

A prescription for enhancing electronic prescribing safety.

December 12, 2018

Principles of conservative prescribing.

June 29, 2011

Medication discrepancy rates and sources upon nursing home intake: a prospective study.

April 6, 2022

Using drug knowledgebase information to distinguish between look-alike-sound-alike drugs.

June 27, 2018

Ten principles for more conservative, care-full diagnosis.

October 10, 2018

Dashboard design to identify and balance competing risk of multiple hospital-acquired conditions.

July 13, 2022

Assessing hospital safety on nights and weekends: the SWAN tool.

June 3, 2009

Like night and day — shedding light on off-hours care.

May 21, 2008

Health information technology is a vehicle, not a destination: a conversation with David J. Brailer.

March 14, 2007

Do hospitals provide lower quality care on weekends?

July 18, 2007

Using a market model to track advances in patient safety.

March 6, 2005

The RCA ReCAst: a root cause analysis simulation for the interprofessional clinical learning environment.

July 14, 2021

Indication alerts intercept drug name confusion errors during computerized entry of medication orders.

September 3, 2014

Professional values and reported behaviours of doctors in the USA and UK: quantitative survey.

April 6, 2011

Optimizing measurement of misdiagnosis-related harms using symptom-disease pair analysis of diagnostic error (SPADE): comparison groups to maximize SPADE validity.

May 3, 2023

Safety organizing, emotional exhaustion, and turnover in hospital nursing units.

September 3, 2014

CHaMP: A model for building a center to support health care worker well-being after experiencing an adverse event.

April 5, 2023

Simulation-based trial of surgical-crisis checklists.

January 30, 2013

Flow disruptions in trauma care handoffs.

May 22, 2013

Wrong-site craniotomy: analysis of 35 cases and systems for prevention.

September 15, 2010

Impact of computerized prescriber order entry on the incidence of adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients.

November 21, 2007

IDEA4PS: the development of a research-oriented learning healthcare system.

February 14, 2018

Adverse effects of computers during bedside rounds in a critical care unit.

August 1, 2018

Learning from errors: analysis of medication order voiding in CPOE systems.

March 15, 2017

Burnout mediates the association between depression and patient safety perceptions: a cross-sectional study in hospital nurses.

April 26, 2017

A prospective controlled trial of an electronic hand hygiene reminder system.

October 21, 2015

Racial disparities in the frequency of patient safety events: results from the National Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System.

June 1, 2011

Use of temporary nurses and nurse and patient safety outcomes in acute care hospital units.

October 6, 2010

Automated detection of look-alike/sound-alike medication errors.

April 12, 2017

Related Resources

Unstoppable: this doctor has been investigated at every level of government. How is he still practicing?

August 23, 2023

Medical malpractice lawsuits involving trainees in obstetrics and gynecology in the USA.

September 21, 2022

The physiology of failure: identifying risk factors for mortality in emergency general surgery patients using a regional health system integrated electronic medical record.

September 7, 2022

Variation in the reporting of elective surgeries and its influence on patient safety indicators.

July 6, 2022

Simulation-based assessment identifies longitudinal changes in cognitive skills in an anesthesiology residency training program.

September 22, 2021

Chief resident indirect supervision in training safety study: is a chief resident general surgery service safe for patients?

September 1, 2021

"It's a big part of being good surgeons": surgical trainees' perceptions of error recovery in the operating room.

July 28, 2021

Wrong-site surgery in Pennsylvania during 2015–2019: a study of variables associated with 368 events from 178 facilities.

January 20, 2021

Bundle interventions including nontechnical skills for surgeons can reduce operative time and improve patient safety.

December 9, 2020

Surgical errors happen, but are learners trained to recover from them? A survey of North American surgical residents and fellows.

August 26, 2020

Critical errors in infrequently performed trauma procedures after training.

November 20, 2019

Knowledge retention after simulated crisis: importance of independent practice and simulated mortality.

June 5, 2019

Understanding the clinical implications of resident involvement in uncommon operations.

May 1, 2019

Failure to debrief after critical events in anesthesia is associated with failures in communication during the event.

March 20, 2019

Trainee autonomy and patient safety.

December 6, 2017

Readiness of US general surgery residents for independent practice.

October 4, 2017

Surgical residents' work hours and well-being in year 2 of the FIRST trial.

July 26, 2017

Association of a surgical task during training with team skill acquisition among surgical residents: the missing piece in multidisciplinary team training.

June 7, 2017

Comparison of appendectomy outcomes between senior general surgeons and general surgery residents.

May 3, 2017

Performance of vascular exposure and fasciotomy among surgical residents before and after training compared with experts.

March 22, 2017

The influence of resident involvement on surgical outcomes.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The influence of resident involvement on surgical outcomes.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

PSNet Log in

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site