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ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2014

Reduction in gastric cancer surgical mortality over 10 years: An adverse events analysis.

J A Young, S M Shimi, L Kerr, G McPhillips, A M Thompson

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Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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J A YoungDepartment of Surgery and Molecular Oncology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, United Kingdom.
S M ShimiDepartment of Surgery and Molecular Oncology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, United Kingdom.
L KerrScottish Audit of Surgical Mortality, Cirrus Building, Marchburn Drive, Paisley PA3 2SJ, United Kingdom.
G McPhillipsScottish Audit of Surgical Mortality, Cirrus Building, Marchburn Drive, Paisley PA3 2SJ, United Kingdom.
A M ThompsonDepartment of Surgery and Molecular Oncology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, United Kingdom ; Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality, Cirrus Building, Marchburn Drive, Paisley PA3 2SJ, United Kingdom.

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backgroundThe reduction in gastric cancer mortality is due to a reduction in incidence and of surgical mortality. This study was to examine adverse events in patients with gastric cancer dying under surgical care.

methodsAdverse events in surgical care were prospectively audited in patients who died of gastric cancer in Scottish hospitals. A cohort retrospective study examining deaths and contributing adverse events was compared for the periods 1996-2000 and 2001-2005.

resultsBetween 1996 and 2005, 1083 patients with gastric cancer died on surgical wards in Scottish hospitals. The annual number of deaths under surgical care fell significantly from an average of 128 deaths per annum in years 1996-2000 to 88 deaths per annum in 2001-2005 (p < 0.001). This occurred in parallel with the decline in gastric cancer incidence over the same period. There was an increase in the proportion of gastric cancer resections carried out in 7 major hospitals in Scotland in the second period of the study (p < 0.001). The mean number of deaths in the group of patients, who had gastric cancer resection and palliative surgery, were significantly lower in the second period of the study In addition, when all patients were considered as a group, the mean number of anaesthetic, critical care, medical management and technical surgery adverse events were significantly lower in the second study period.

conclusionThere has been a reduction in deaths and adverse events for patients with gastric cancer under surgical care and this has been associated with surgical subspecialisation in oesophago-gastric cancer surgery.

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Adverse eventsGastric cancerHospital volumeMortalityScotlandSurgery

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PMCPMC4268482

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