Introspection into institutional database allows for focused quality improvement plan in cardiac surgery: Example for a new global healthcare system

American Surgeon

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1040-1044

  Lancaster, Elizabeth ^a   Postel, Mackenzie ^a   Satou, Nancy ^a   Shemin, Richard ^a   Benharash, Peyman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; PATIENT EDUCATION; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT READMISSION; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84885636063     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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