Evaluating the reliability and reproducibility of the Ottawa thoracic morbidity and mortality classification system

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 387-393

  Ivanovic, Jelena ^a,b   Al Hussaini, Ahmed ^a,b   Al Shehab, Derar ^a,b   Threader, Jennifer ^a,b   Villeneuve, Patrick James ^a,b   Ramsay, Tim ^a,b   Maziak, Donna E ^a,b   Gilbert, Sebastian ^a,b   Shamji, Farid M ^a,b   Sundaresan, R Sudhir ^a,b   Seely, Andrew J E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OTTAWA THORACIC MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURGEON; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX SURGERY;

HUMANS; ONTARIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; THORACIC SURGERY; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78751667177     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.10.035     Document Type: Article

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