Assessing the performance of aging surgeons. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Assessing the performance of aging surgeons. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published January 2019

Assessing the performance of aging surgeons.

Katlic MR, Coleman J, Russell MM. JAMA. 2019 Jan 14; [Epub ahead of print].

High-risk industries like aviation employ policies to require that practitioners retire from risky work at a certain age. This commentary advocates for individual rather than generalapproaches to assessing abilities of aging surgeons to practice safely.

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