Is hospital procedure volume a reliable marker of quality for coronary artery bypass surgery? A comparison of risk and propensity adjusted operative and midterm outcomes

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1961-1969

  Zacharias, Anoar ^b   Schwann, Thomas A ^b   Riordan, Christopher J ^b   Durham, Samuel J ^b   Shah, Aamir ^b   Papadimos, Thomas J ^b   Engoren, Milo ^b   Habib, Robert H ^a  

^a ST VINCENT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; COVARIANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444366932     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. E.D. Peterson, L.P. Coombs, E.R. DeLong, C.K. Haan, T.B. Ferguson Procedural volume as a marker of quality for CABG surgery JAMA 291 2 2004 195 201
2. E.L. Hannan, C. Wu, T.J. Ryan Do hospitals and surgeons with higher coronary artery bypass graft surgery volumes still have lower risk-adjusted mortality rates? Circulation 108 2003 795 801
3. C. Wu, E.L. Hannan, T.J. Ryan, E. Bennett Is the impact of hospital and surgeon volumes on the in-hospital mortality rate for coronary artery bypass graft surgery limited to patients at high risk? Circulation 110 7 2004 784 789
4. P.P. Goodney, F.L. Lucas, J.D. Birkmeyer Should volume standards for cardiovascular surgery focus only on high-risk patients? Circulation 107 2003 384 387
5. J.D. Birkmeyer, A.E. Siewers, E.V.A. Finlayson Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States N Engl J Med 346 2002 1128 1137
6. J.D. Birkmeyer, E.V. Finlayson, C.M. Birkmeyer Volume standards for high-risk surgical procedures potential benefits of the Leapfrog initiative Surgery 130 2001 415 422
7. J. Daley Invited commentary quality of care and the volume-outcome relationship-what's next for surgery? Surgery 131 2002 16 18
8. E.L. Hannan, A.L. Siu, D. Kumar The decline in coronary artery bypass graft surgery mortality in New York State the role of surgeon volume JAMA 273 1995 209 213
9. E.L. Hannan, J.F. O'Donnell, H. Kilburn Jr Investigation of the relationship between volume and mortality for surgical procedures performed in New York State hospitals JAMA 262 1989 503 510
10. J.A. Showstack, K.E. Rosenfeld, D.W. Garnick Association of volume with outcome of coronary artery bypass graft surgery scheduled vs nonscheduled operations JAMA 257 1987 785 789
11. Leapfrog Group. Evidence-based hospital referral. Washington, DC: Leapfrog Group. Available at: http://www.leapfroggroup.org/FactSheets/ EHR_FactSheet.pdf. Accessed September, 11, 2004.
12. J.A. Sollano, A.C. Gelijns, A.J. Moskowitz Volume-outcome relationships in cardiovascular operations New York State, 1990-1995 J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 117 1999 419 428
13. A.L. Shroyer, G. Marshall, B.A. Warner No continuous relationship between Veterans Affairs hospital coronary artery bypass grafting surgical volume and operative mortality Ann Thorac Surg 61 1996 17 20
14. B.K. Nallamothu, S. Saint, S.D. Ramsey The role of hospital volume in coronary artery bypass grafting is more always better? J Am Coll Cardiol 38 2001 1923 1930
15. R.A. Dudley, K.L. Johansen, R. Brand Selective referral to high-volume hospitals estimating potentially avoidable deaths JAMA 283 2000 1159 1166
16. H.S. Luft Better for whom? Policy implications of acting on the relation between volume and outcome in coronary artery bypass grafting J Am Coll Cardiol 38 2001 1931 1933
17. H.S. Luft, J.P. Bunker, A.C. Enthoven Should operations be regionalized? The empirical relation between surgical volume and mortality N Engl J Med 301 1979 1364 1369
18. S.C. Maerki, H.S. Luft, S.S. Hunt Selecting categories of patients for regionalization implications of the relationship between volume and outcome Med Care 24 1986 148 158
19. A.L. Shroyer, L.P. Coombs, E.D. Peterson The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 30-day operative mortality and morbidity risk models Ann Thorac Surg 75 2003 1856 1865
20. E.L. Kaplan, P. Meier Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations J Am Stat Assoc 53 1958 457 481
21. D. Cox Regression models and life tables J R Stat Soc B 34 1972 187 220
22. K.C. Cain, N.T. Lange Approximate case influence for the proportional hazards regression model with censored data Biometrics 40 1984 493 499
23. D.B. Rubin Estimating causal effects from large data sets using propensity scores Ann Intern Med 127 1997 757 763
24. E.H. Blackstone Comparing apples and oranges J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 123 2002 8 15
25. T.B. Ferguson, E.D. Peterson, L.P. Coombs The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the STS NCD Use of continuous quality improvement to increase use of process measures in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery a randomized controlled trial JAMA 290 2003 49 56
26. F.H. Edwards, R.E. Clark, M. Schwartz Practical considerations in the management of large multi-institutional databases Ann Thorac Surg 58 1994 1841 1844
27. T.B. Ferguson Jr, S.W. Dziuban Jr, F.H. Edwards Committee to establish a national database in cardiothoracic surgery, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. The STS National Database: current changes and challenges for the new millennium Ann Thorac Surg 69 2000 680 691
28. F. Roques, S.A.M. Nashef, P. Michel Risk factors and outcome in European cardiac surgery analysis of the EuroSCORE multinational database of 19030 patients Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 15 1999 816 823