Discharge Decision-Making after Complex Surgery: Surgeon Behavior Compared to Predictive Modeling to Reduce Surgical Readmissions

RESULTS: Mean faculty size was 76. Overall, there were 35.4% assistant, 27.2% associate, and 37.4% full professors. Women comprised 21.8%; 5.3% were MD-PhDs, and 6.3% were PhDs. By faculty rank, publications/citations were: assistant, 14/175; associate, 39/649; and full-professor, 97/2,250. General surgery contributed most publications and citations. Highest performing groups per person were: research (58/1,683); transplantation (52/ 1,067); oncology (51/1,179); and cardiothoracic surgery (48/ 860). Overall, 23.2% of faculty were principal investigators for current/former NIH grants, and 8.9% for a current or former R01/ U01/P01. The 10 most cited faculty (MCF) within each department contributed to 42% of all publications and 55% of all citations. The MCF were most commonly general (25%), oncologic (19%), or transplant surgeons (15%). Fifty-one percent of MCF had current/former NIH funding, compared with 20% of the rest (p<0.05); and funding rates for R01/U01/P01 grants were 25.1% vs 6.8% (p<0.05). Rate of current-NIH MCF funding correlated with higher total departmental NIH rank (p<0.05).