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Weekly JAMA Feature for July 27
BARIATRIC SURGERY COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL AND SURGEON PROCEDURE RATES
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo until 4 p.m. (ET) Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
July 27, 2010
VO: BARIATRIC SURGERIES FOR WEIGHT LOSS ARE THE SECOND MOST COMMON ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS PERFORMED IN THE UNITED STATES. THE SAFETY AND OUTCOMES OF THESE SURGERIES ARE STILL A CONCERN. A NEW STUDY IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN SHOWS WHILE COMPLICATION RATES REMAIN LOW, SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE VOLUME OF PROCEDURES IN HOSPITALS AND BY SURGEONS.
“Low volume hospitals and surgeons had a serious complication rate of four percent compared to two percent for high volume surgeons in hospitals.”
VO: DR. NANCY BIRKMEYER FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED THE OUTCOMES OF MORE THAN 15 THOUSAND BARIATRIC SURGERY PATIENTS IN MICHIGAN FROM 2006 TO 2009. THE 25 HOSPITALS AND 62 SURGEONS INVOLVED WERE PART OF THE MICHIGAN BARIATRIC SURGERY COLLABORATIVE, A PAYER FUNDED CLINICAL OUTCOMES REGISTRY. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“We now have very strong evidence that bariatric surgery outcomes are related to procedure volume and are not related to centers of excellence status.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
July 27, 2010
VO: BARIATRIC SURGERIES FOR WEIGHT LOSS ARE THE SECOND MOST COMMON ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS PERFORMED IN THE UNITED STATES. THE SAFETY AND OUTCOMES OF THESE SURGERIES ARE STILL A CONCERN. A NEW STUDY IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN SHOWS WHILE COMPLICATION RATES REMAIN LOW, SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE VOLUME OF PROCEDURES IN HOSPITALS AND BY SURGEONS.
“Low volume hospitals and surgeons had a serious complication rate of four percent compared to two percent for high volume surgeons in hospitals.”
VO: DR. NANCY BIRKMEYER FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED THE OUTCOMES OF MORE THAN 15 THOUSAND BARIATRIC SURGERY PATIENTS IN MICHIGAN FROM 2006 TO 2009. THE 25 HOSPITALS AND 62 SURGEONS INVOLVED WERE PART OF THE MICHIGAN BARIATRIC SURGERY COLLABORATIVE, A PAYER FUNDED CLINICAL OUTCOMES REGISTRY. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“We now have very strong evidence that bariatric surgery outcomes are related to procedure volume and are not related to centers of excellence status.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.