The impact of high-risk cases on hospitals' risk-adjusted coronary artery bypass grafting mortality rankings

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 856-862

  Englum, Brian R ^a,b   Saha Chaudhuri, Paramita ^b   Shahian, David M ^c   O'Brien, Sean M ^b   Brennan, J Matthew ^a,b   Edwards, Fred H ^d   Peterson, Eric D ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CASE MIX; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ADJUSTED MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 84924624327     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.09.048     Document Type: Article

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