Baseball and surgery may seem like unexpected teammates, but new research shows advanced statistics taken from our national pastime could actually improve assessment of surgical quality.
The study of patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair found that weighted Wins Above Average, a risk-adjusted, complication-weighted surgical quality metric, successfully distinguished high- and low-quality centers for both open and endovascular AAA repair (J Vasc Surg