Changing relationship of pediatric surgical workforce to patient demographics

Background Physician workforce studies indicate that more specialists contribute to higher average costs. The closely monitored pediatric surgery specialty may reflect what is occurring in other specialties. Methods This report reviews the number of complex operations performed on infants and children in 1970, with <225 trained US pediatric surgeons, and in 2010, when there were 1,130. The number of births remained consistent during this 40-year...