A Tale of Two Hospitals: Receiving Surgical Care at a Hospital with a Geriatric Surgical Pathway Improves Postoperative Outcomes
These findings demonstrate that older patients receiving care with geriatric surgical support have improved LOS and decreased reportable complications, which supports the need for randomized prospective studies to establish the unbiased benefits of GSPs that align with the American College of Surgeons Geriatric Surgery Verification Program.
Authors
- Dianne Bettick
- Oluwafemi P. Owodunni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4610-2574)
- Sarah M. Jabour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0703-1929)
- Fareeha A. Khan
- TH Magnuson
- S Gearhart
- Solimar Santiago Del Rosario
Institutions
- University of New Mexico Hospital (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Puerto Rico System (PR)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American College of Surgeons
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/xcs.0000000000001797
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00