Relationship between preventability of death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and all-cause risk-adjusted mortality rates

Circulation

Volumn 117, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 2969-2976

  Guru, Veena ^a,b   Tu, Jack V ^a,b   Etchells, Edward ^b   Anderson, Geoffrey M ^a   Naylor, C David ^b   Novick, Richard J ^e   Feindel, Christopher M ^c   Rubens, Fraser D ^f   Teoh, Kevin ^g   Mathur, Avdesh ^h   Hamilton, Andrew ⁱ   Bonneau, Daniel ^d   Cutrara, Charles ^j   Austin, Peter C ^a   Fremes, Stephen E ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^h SUDBURY REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁱ KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^j Trillium Health Centre   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass surgery; Health policy; Hospital mortality; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT CARE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; ADULT; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLICY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDICAL AUDIT; ONTARIO; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 46449115313     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.722249     Document Type: Article

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