Report cards on cardiac surgeons – assessing new york state's approach

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 332, Issue 18, 1995, Pages 1229-1233

  Green, Jesse ^a   Wintfeld, Neil ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL; KIDNEY FAILURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; NEW YORK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0029030616     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199505043321812     Document Type: Editorial

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