Toward quality improvement of thoracic aortic surgery: estimating volume-outcome effect from nationwide survey

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 517-521

  Miyata, Hiroaki ^a   Motomura, Noboru ^a   Ueda, Yuichi ^b   Tsukihara, Hiroyuki ^a   Tabayashi, Koichi ^c   Takamoto, Shinichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Clinical database; Public reporting; Quality improvement; Thoracic aortic surgery; Volume outcome effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA SURGERY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68749092645     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.03.020     Document Type: Article

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