Appendectomy as Teaching Operation: No Compromise in Safety-An Audit of 17,106 Patients.

Objective: In a surgical career, teaching of surgical procedures plays a central role. In this study we want to evaluate the influence of teaching in appendectomies on the in-hospital outcome.

Design And Setting: Retrospectively, 26,436 cases from the national quality measurement database (AQC) between the years 2009 and 2017 were evaluated using the diagnosis and the procedure codes.