Postoperative mortality in New Zealand following general anaesthetic: demographic patterns and temporal trends by James Stanley, Sarah Jackson, Jason K Gurney, Melissa McLeod, Doug Campbell, Luke Boyle, Elizabeth Dennett, Jonathan Koea, Dick Ongley, Diana Sarfati

“…Objectives In this manuscript, we describe broad trends in postoperative mortality in New Zealand (a country with universal healthcare) for acute and elective/waiting list procedures conducted between 2005 and 2017.Design, participants and setting We use high-quality national-level hospitalisation data to compare the risk of postoperative mortality between demographic subgroups after adjusting for key patient-level confounders and mediators. …”
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