Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 206, Issue 1 , Pages 13-16 , January 2008

The Zero Mortality Paradox in Surgery

  • Justin B. Dimick, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • VA Outcomes Group, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT
    • Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
    • Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (M-SCORE), Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: Dr Justin Dimick, VA Outcomes Group 111B, VA Medical Center, 215 N Main St, White River Junction, VT 05009.
    • ,
  • H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • VA Outcomes Group, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT
    • Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH

Received 7 August 2006 ,Revised 19 July 2007 ,Accepted 19 July 2007.

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 Competing Interests Declared: None.

 Dr Dimick was supported by a Veterans Affairs Special Fellowship Program in Outcomes Research. This study was also supported by a Research Enhancement Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs (REA 03–098).

 The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the federal government.

PII: S1072-7515(07)01389-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.07.032

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 206, Issue 1 , Pages 13-16 , January 2008

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