Effect of surgeon on outcome of antireflux surgery.

Background: We sought to determine whether subjective outcomes one or more years after antireflux surgery are affected by the operating surgeon.

Methods: We reviewed records of patients who had antireflux surgery from June 2000 to June 2002 and mailed the patients a 19-item survey that focused on current medication use, postoperative symptom improvement, and satisfaction with surgery. We tested the significance of predictor variables using chi-squared and Fisher exact tests for categorical variables and analysis of variance for continuous variables.