Do bigger hospitals or busier surgeons do better adult aortic or mitral valve operations?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 605-610

  Kidher, Emaddin ^a   Sepehripour, Amir ^b   Punjabi, Prakash ^b   Athanasiou, Thanos ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aortic; Cardiac; Mitral; Mortality; Outcome; Volume

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; BENCHMARKING; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950667773     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.228593     Document Type: Article

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