Institutional factors beyond procedural volume significantly impact center variability in outcomes after orthotopic heart transplantation

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 616-623

  Kilic, Arman ^a   Weiss, Eric S ^a   Yuh, David D ^b   Shah, Ashish S ^a   Cameron, Duke E ^a   Baumgartner, William A ^a   Conte, John V ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac; heart transplantation; mortality; outcomes; quality; survival; volume

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VOLUME; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866545430     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31826b4bc9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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