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To: ConservativeMind
That is what I was going to opine.

When you have nearly any kind of surgery or procedure, the best metric immediately at hand to determine the likelihood of a successful medical result is:

What volume of a procedure do they do annually?

It is simply common sense: A place that does a huge number of hip replacements a year will see variants of anatomy, surgical procedures, and dangerous complications that a smaller community hospital doing far fewer would ever see.

It isn't bulletproof, but if I had to make a snap decision with one easily derived metric, that is the metric I would ask to see.

3 posted on 02/08/2023 8:47:55 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rlmorel

When it is an emergency one doesn’t have the lyxury of checking. You get what you get


8 posted on 02/08/2023 9:54:19 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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