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Quality Improvement in Cardiac Care.
- Source :
- Archives of Surgery; Jan2002, Vol. 137 Issue 1, p28, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- Quality improvement in cardiac care has made considerable progress over the past 30 years. During that period, there has been the development of multi-institutional databases to monitor outcomes following cardiothoracic surgery. These databases initially began using only volume and unadjusted operative (30-day) mortality as outcome criteria. There has been a progressive increase in their sophistication, with the building of risk models based on preoperative variables, which accurately predict the risk of adverse outcomes. Other outcomes have been added including risk-adjusted mortality and morbidity; efficiency outcomes such as length of stay, quality of life, functional health status, neuropsychological outcomes; and long-term outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CORONARY care units
EVALUATION of medical care
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00040010
- Volume :
- 137
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Archives of Surgery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 6099889
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.137.1.28