The STS national database: Current changes and challenges for the new millennium

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 680-691

  Ferguson, T Bruce ^a   Dziuban, Stanley W ^a   Edwards, Fred H ^a   Eiken, Mary C ^a   Shroyer, A Laurie W ^a   Pairolero, Peter C ^a   Anderson, Richard P ^a   Grover, Frederick L ^a  

^a Society of Thoracic Surgeons   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SOFTWARE; THORACIC SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0342804417     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01538-6     Document Type: Article

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