Outcomes for many patients requiring emergency surgery are better when the operation is done by busier surgeons, new Irish research indicates.
Conversely, low volume surgical teams have consistently higher mortality for emergency abdominal surgery than high volume teams, the analysis of five years of hospital records shows.said the finding has “huge implications” that need to be considered by the HSE, hospital groups and at political level. He says it bolsters the case for reducing the number of hospitals providing critical surgery services.
Mr Mealy said that Finland, with a similar population, has eight to 10 centres, while if Ireland were to follow UK arrangements, it would offer surgery in only 10 locations.
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