Dr Maurie Markman explores recent findings showing how retrospective studies can help optimize future care strategies.
Professor of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center; President, Medicine & Science, City of Hope Atlanta, Chicago, PhoenixHello. I'm Dr Maurie Markman, from City of Hope. I'd like to briefly discuss a fascinating paper that deals with an important question and demonstrates the value of retrospective studies, looking at data that have been collected for other purposes but which might inform future optimization of our care. .
I assume in the database, although I'm not familiar with it, it says that there was one attending surgeon or two surgeons directly involved. It could be that the fellows would be considered as surgeons, but the point is they used the term"two-surgeon team." Here's the bottom line. These are objective data in the database. If one looked at the question of an anastomotic leak, there was a rate of 3.6% for the gynecologic oncologists and 5.2% for general surgeons. For the two-surgeon teams, the risk for an anastomotic leak was 0.4%.
These are provocative data. I'm not a surgeon so I will not comment any further. I think this is the type of data that, when you see this retrospective analysis, it's very important for the surgical community, and for hospitals looking at their own quality, to say, if we're not doing two-surgeon teams, we should look at our own data and perhaps require or at least recommend it.
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