Temporal changes in survival after cardiac surgery are associated with the thirty-day mortality benchmark

Health Services Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1659-1669

  Maxwell, Bryan G ^a   Wong, Jim K ^b   Miller, D Craig ^c   Lobato, Robert L ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Hawthorne effect; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; quality metrics; surgical outcomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FOLLOW UP; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME; TRENDS;

BENCHMARKING; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84908230076     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12174     Document Type: Article

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