Comparing outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery: Is the New York Cardiac Surgery Reporting System model sensitive to changes in case mix?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2090-2096

  Glance, Laurent G ^a,c   Osler, Turner M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Case mix; Logistic models; Modeling; Outcome assessment; Quality assessment; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DATA BASE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0035170762     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200111000-00008     Document Type: Article

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