Thirty‐day morbidity and mortality following otologic/neurotologic surgery: Analysis of the national surgical quality improvement program
Schwam ZG, Michaelides E, Kuo P, Hajek MA, Judson BL, Schutt C. Thirty‐day morbidity and mortality following otologic/neurotologic surgery: Analysis of the national surgical quality improvement program. The Laryngoscope 2017, 128: 1431-1437. PMID: 28940480, DOI: 10.1002/lary.26848.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNational Surgical Quality Improvement ProgramSurgical Quality Improvement ProgramAdverse event ratesQuality Improvement ProgramPostoperative morbidityFunctional statusTumor resectionNeurotologic surgerySurgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement ProgramOpen woundsOverall adverse event rateEvent ratesHigher adverse event ratesThirty-day morbidityPoor functional statusRetrospective cohort studyOverall mortality rateMultivariable logistic regressionImpaired functional statusMastoid proceduresPostoperative mortalityMajor morbidityPostoperative complicationsSignificant comorbiditiesCohort study