Does the Level of Experience of Residents Affect Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1127-1134

  Bakaeen, Faisal G ^a   Dhaliwal, Amandeep S ^b   Chu, Danny ^a   Bozkurt, Biykem ^a,b   Tsai, Peter ^a   LeMaire, Scott A ^a   Wall Jr , Matthew J ^a,c   Coselli, Joseph S ^a,d   Huh, Joseph ^a  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BEN TAUB GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MORBIDITY; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENT; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EFFICIENCY; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62649105272     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.12.080     Document Type: Article

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