Bypass surgery mortality is blunt measure of performance

Bypass surgery mortality is blunt measure of performance

EDITOR-Kmietowicz reports that UK heart surgeons are among the best in the world as measured by crude mortality of isolated coronary artery bypass surgery. 1 This marker of surgical performance is widespread.

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ 2004-10, Vol.329 (7470), p.856-856
1. Verfasser: Gilfillan, Ian S
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Catheters
Clinical Competence - standards
Coronary Artery Bypass - mortality
Coronary vessels
Heart
Heart surgery
Humans
Letters
Mortality
Surgeons
Thoracic Surgery - standards
United Kingdom
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Zusammenfassung:EDITOR-Kmietowicz reports that UK heart surgeons are among the best in the world as measured by crude mortality of isolated coronary artery bypass surgery. 1 This marker of surgical performance is widespread.
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.329.7470.856-a