Is there a surgeon or hospital volume-outcome relationship in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 202-207

  Sepehripour, Amir H ^a,b   Athanasiou, Thanos ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass graft; Off pump; Volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL VOLUME; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGEON VOLUME; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872705382     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs448     Document Type: Article

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