Quality assurance in congenital heart surgery

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 693-697

  Kang, Nicholas ^a   Tsang, Victor T ^a   Gallivan, Steve ^b   Sherlaw Johnson, Chris ^b   Cole, Timothy J ^c   Elliott, Martin J ^a   de Leval, Marc R ^a  

^a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Cardiac surgery; Performance monitoring; Surgical outcomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONDON; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33646116268     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.01.034     Document Type: Article

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