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Pro tip: if getting a colonoscopy, always always get the first appointment of the day. I work in med devices and ummm those scopes still have poop left over between procedures. Its not harmful, but still...
Pro tip: if getting a colonoscopy, always always get the first appointment of the day. I work in med devices and ummm those scopes still have poop left over between procedures. Its not harmful, but still...
In the US it is Monday as in the title, but in other countries, Israel for example, it would be Sunday.
uhh guessing it halves the % of failures is what they actually mean 30k deaths / 4 million procedures is 0.75% death rate going from 99.25% to 99.6% survival isn't doubling anything also 'success' doesn't appear anywhere in this article, guessing '30 day mortality' is the thing they're measuring
Pro tip: if getting a colonoscopy, always always get the first appointment of the day. I work in med devices and ummm those scopes still have poop left over between procedures. Its not harmful, but still...
So, I’d recommend not going to the hospitals this dude services.
It's not analyzing "success" of the surgery, but "30-day mortality for (almost) any cause". (While death caused by the surgery is definitely failure, the absence of death isn't necessarilt "success".)
Also, there's no evaluation of "consciously choosing Monday" as a causal factor. There could be all sorts of pressures causing the surgeries on different days-of-the-week to have different risk factors, even if they're all "elective". (As they note: "One of the weaknesses of using administrative data is that we were unable to completely adjust for inherent selection biases that probably exist for elective procedures that are scheduled on weekends.".)
I can believe there's some effect of patient choice, possibly related to staff exhaustion, post-op complications happening during under-resourced weekends, but expect a lot of the effect found here to be due to factors pushing certain surgeries/deaths into certain days (and arbitrary categories that might have affected inclusion).
Pro tip: if getting a colonoscopy, always always get the first appointment of the day. I work in med devices and ummm those scopes still have poop left over between procedures. Its not harmful, but still...
I'm no expert but aren't you exposing one patient to the previous patient's poop? There could be anything from a lovely c-diff payload to something the next guy is allegeric to like nuts. As a layperson it hardly seems harmless.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, this reminds me a lot of the "Impossibly Hungry Judges" problem[0]. [0] http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges
> If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45 a.m. ...this has potential! Scrape GitHub, find closed issues marked 'bug', do a blame on the offending line or lines, find the timestamp and plot.
Pro tip: if getting a colonoscopy, always always get the first appointment of the day. I work in med devices and ummm those scopes still have poop left over between procedures. Its not harmful, but still...
Why are they not cleaned thoroughly? Just curious.
Pro tip: if getting a colonoscopy, always always get the first appointment of the day. I work in med devices and ummm those scopes still have poop left over between procedures. Its not harmful, but still...
I'm no expert but aren't you exposing one patient to the previous patient's poop? There could be anything from a lovely c-diff payload to something the next guy is allegeric to like nuts. As a layperson it hardly seems harmless.
https://www.focusforhealth.org/need-a-colonoscopy-the-one-qu...