Methodology White Paper

Risk-Adjusted Surgical Outcomes Analysis for Medical-Legal Review

A Daubert-defensible methodology — applied to the specific surgeon at issue, using that surgeon's own EMR data, with disclosed limitations, confidence intervals, and reproducible methods.

What's in the white paper

The gap in current surgical outcomes evidence
Data sources and access paths — defense-side EMR extraction under BAA, plaintiff-side discovery production under protective order
Risk-adjustment model specification — variables, statistical methods, peer-cohort construction
Custom Outcomes Measures protocol — bespoke metric construction without "constructed for litigation" exposure
Limitations — what the analysis does and does not establish (standard of care, case-specific causation explicitly excluded)
Daubert factor mapping — point-by-point response to each factor with anticipated cross-examination
Independence and conflict-check — structural firewall against the SurgiConnect customer base
Synthetic sample report appendix — labeled-illustrative exemplar showing the work product format
Engagement models, fees, and scoping workflow

~25 pages plus appendices. Authored by Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS — Founder, SurgiQuality.

Who this is for

Defense litigation partners in medical malpractice / healthcare litigation practice groups
Med-mal carrier claims executives and medical directors
Hospital risk management and in-house counsel
Plaintiff counsel where conflict-check is clean
Healthcare regulatory counsel evaluating the methodology firm

Every recipient is conflict-checked at the firm level against active SurgiConnect customer relationships before the PDF is sent.

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