{"id":168029,"date":"2023-07-21T20:42:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/pcp-visits-before-emergency-surgery-tied-to-lower-mortality-in-older-adults"},"modified":"2023-07-21T20:42:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:42:26","slug":"pcp-visits-before-emergency-surgery-tied-to-lower-mortality-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/pcp-visits-before-emergency-surgery-tied-to-lower-mortality-in-older-adults","title":{"rendered":"PCP Visits Before Emergency Surgery Tied to Lower Mortality in Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pcp-visits-before-emergency-surgery-tied-to-lower-mortality-in-older-adults2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings suggest that primary care may be exerting a protective effect on postoperative morbidity and mortality,\u201d wrote Sanford E. Roberts, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and co-authors in <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamasurgery\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jamasurg.2023.2742\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JAMA Surgery<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, Black patients with PCP exposure had similar adjusted odds of in-hospital mortality relative to patients with no PCP exposure (OR 1.09, 95% CI 0.75\u22121.57), while white patients with PCP exposure had a 21% decreased risk of in-hospital mortality compared with the same group (OR 0.79, 95% CI 0.70\u22120.90).<\/p>\n<p>However, at 30, 60, 90, and 180 days post-surgery, both Black and white patients who had visited a PCP had significantly lower adjusted odds of mortality compared with those who had not seen a PCP, with no significant differences in the interactions between race and PCP exposure for mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese findings suggest that primary care may be exerting a protective effect on postoperative morbidity and mortality,\u201d wrote Sanford E. Roberts, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and co-authors in JAMA Surgery. Of note, Black patients with PCP exposure had similar adjusted odds of in-hospital mortality relative to patients with no PCP exposure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}