Comparison of Risk-Adjusted 30-Day Postoperative Mortality and Morbidity in Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals and Selected University Medical Centers: General Surgical Operations in Men

Abstract

Compared with their VA counterparts, women undergoing vascular operations at private sector hospitals had a higher incidence of preoperative comorbidities; after risk adjustment, mortality did not differ substantially. Despite risk adjustment, the incidence of postoperative morbidity in the VA patients was considerably lower, suggesting unidentified differences in the hospital populations, their processes of care, or both.