Open AccessToward quality improvement of thoracic aortic surgery: estimating volume-outcome effect from nationwide survey☆
Author(s) -
Hiroaki Miyata,
Noboru Motomura,
Yuichi Ueda,
Hiroyuki Tsukihara,
Koichi Tabayashi,
Shinichi Takamoto
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.03.020
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiothoracic surgery , logistic regression , volume (thermodynamics) , mortality rate , surgery , aortic surgery , aorta , physics , quantum mechanics
Although understanding the association between surgical volume and outcome has been the focus of much research, no study has yet reported the volume-outcome effect for thoracic aortic surgery.
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