The lifetime risk of surgery in England: a nationwide observational cohort study

作者：Sarah-Louise Watson, Alexander J. Fowler, Priyanthi Dias, Bruce Biccard, Yize I. Wan, Rupert M. Pearse, Tom Abbott · 发表于：British Journal of Anaesthesia · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1016/j.bja.2024.06.028 · 被引用次数：13 · 研究领域：COVID-19 and healthcare impacts、Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes、Surgical Simulation and Training

BACKGROUND: The average number of times a person will have surgery in their lifetime, and the amount of surgical healthcare resources they use, is unknown. Lifetime risk is a measure of the risk of an average person having a specific event within their lifetime. We report the lifetime risk of surgery and the change observed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: We conducted a population cohort study using hospital episode statistics to identify all patients undergoing surgery between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2020, in England. We calculated age- and sex-specific incidence rates of surgery and combined these with routinely available population and mortality data from the Office for National Statistics. We computed the probability of requiring surgery stratified by 5-yr epochs (age 0-4 to ≥90 yr). Our primary analysis calculated lifetime risk for all surgery using the life table method. We assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing a pre-pandemic and a pandemic period. RESULTS: Between 2016 and 2020, 23 427 531 patients underwent surgery, of which 11 937 062 were first surgeries. The average denominator population for England was 55.9 million. The lifetime risk of first surgery was 60.2% (95% confidence interval 55.1-65.4%) for women and 59.1% (95% confidence interval 54.2-64.1%) for men. The COVID-19 pandemic decreased the lifetime risk of first surgery by 32.3% for women and by 31.7% for men. This estimated lifetime risk should only be ...