Gaming in risk-adjusted mortality rates: Effect of misclassification of risk factors in the benchmarking of cardiac surgery risk-adjusted mortality rates

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 781-789

  Siregar, Sabrina ^a   Groenwold, Rolf H H ^a   Versteegh, Michel I M ^b   Noyez, Luc ^c   Ter Burg, Willem Jan P P ^d   Bots, Michiel L ^a   Van Der Graaf, Yolanda ^a   Van Herwerden, Lex A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK;

ADULT; AGED; BENCHMARKING; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84873989159     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.03.018     Document Type: Article

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