Institutional report - Cardiac general: Assessing clinical performance in cardiac surgery. Does a specialised clinical database make a difference?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-127

  Fortuna, Daniela ^a   Vizioli, Maria ^a   Contini, Andrea ^b   Ghidoni, Italo ^c   Biagi, Bruno ^d   Pacini, Davide ^e   Carnelos, Giannantonio ^d   Grilli, Roberto ^a  

^a Agenzia Sanitaria Regionale   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria   (Italy)

^c HESPERIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Department of Cardiac Surgery ^*  (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Cardiac surgery; Case mix adjustment; Clinical database; League table

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH CENTER; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 33645553452     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2005.113837     Document Type: Article

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