Acute clinical and financial outcomes of esophagectomy at safety-net hospitals in the United States
Fig 2
Annual trends in esophagectomy caseload and unadjusted mortality at SNH and non-SNH.
Overall esophagectomy volume increased at both SNH and non-SNH (nptrend<0.001). Further, the proportion of patients undergoing esophagectomy at SNH significantly increased from 2010 to 2019, from 10.8% (469) of all operations in 2010 to 20.9% (1,246) in 2019, nptrend<0.001.