Use of mortality rate after aortic surgery as a performance indicator

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 827-831

  Michaels, J A ^a  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; WALES;

EID: 0038675243     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4310     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. Hawkes N. Taking your chances. The Times 18 Nov 2002; 2-3.
2. Howell J, Yonan N, Dunn PM, Aslan T. Performance league tables. League tables are unreasonably simple. BMJ 2002; 324: 542.
3. Michaels J, Brazier J, Palfreyman S, Shackley P, Slack R. Cost and outcome implications of the organisation of vascular services. Health Technol Assess 2000; 4: 1-191.
4. Rigby KA, Palfreyman S, Michaels JA. Performance indicators from routine hospital data: death following aortic surgery as a potential measure of quality of care. Br J Surg 2001; 88: 964-968.
5. Robson AK, Currie IC, Poskitt KR, Scott DJ, Baird RN, Horrocks M. Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the over eighties. Br J Surg 1989; 76: 1018-1020.
6. CHKS Ltd. General Surgery 97/98 Healthcare Resource Groups. Financial Times Healthcare: London, 1998.
7. The UK Small Aneurysm Trial Participants. Mortality results for randomised controlled trial of early elective surgery or ultrasonographic surveillance for small abdominal aortic aneurysms. Lancet 1998; 352: 1649-1655.
8. Shackley P, Slack R, Booth A, Michaels J. Is there a positive volume-outcome relationship in peripheral vascular surgery? Results of a systematic review. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2000; 20: 326-335.
9. Michaels JA, Palfreyman S, Wood R. Evidence-based guidelines for the configuration of vascular services. J Clin Excellence 2001; 3: 145-153.
10. Earnshaw JJ, Ridler B, Kinsman R on behalf of the Audit and Research Committee of the Vascular Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. National Vascular Database Report 2001. Dendrite Clinical Systems Ltd: Oxfordshire, 2001.
11. Prytherch DR, Rider BM, Beard JD, Earnshaw JJ. A model for national outcome audit in vascular surgery. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2001; 21: 477-483.