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Patient satisfaction a poor surrogate for quality of care in brain surgery
August 18, 2015 by NewsBot
Patient satisfaction is a very poor proxy for quality of care comparisons in elective cranial neurosurgery. Because deaths are rare events in elective cranial neurosurgery, reporting of surgeon or even department-specific mortality figures cannot differentiate a high or low level of the quality of care, investigators say.
