Risk Aversion and Public Reporting. Part 1: Observations From Cardiac Surgery and Interventional Cardiology

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2093-2101

  Shahian, David M ^a   Jacobs, Jeffrey P ^b   Badhwar, Vinay ^c   D'Agostino, Richard S ^d   Bavaria, Joseph E ^e   Prager, Richard L ^f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Lahey Health ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THORACIC SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HEART DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THORAX SURGERY;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOLOGY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 85032922808     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.06.077     Document Type: Review

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