Public reporting of cardiac surgery performance: introduction.

نویسنده

  • David M Shahian
چکیده

Cardiac surgery has been at the forefront of healthcare quality measurement and improvement for ore than 2 decades. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons STS) Adult Cardiac Surgery Database was introduced in 989 and now enrolls patients from approximately 95% of ardiac surgery programs in the United States. Robust eneral thoracic and congenital cardiac surgery dataases have also been developed and implemented.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Annals of thoracic surgery

دوره 92 3 Suppl  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011