Open AccessInfluence of Hospital Procedural Volume on Care Process and Mortality for Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation
Author(s) -
James S. Gammie,
Sean M. O’Brien,
Bartley P. Griffith,
T. Bruce Ferguson,
Eric D. Peterson
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.106.634436
Subject(s) - medicine , quartile , odds ratio , confidence interval , mitral regurgitation , mitral valve , cardiology , cardiac surgery , surgery , volume (thermodynamics) , retrospective cohort study , physics , quantum mechanics
Few studies have examined the procedural volume-outcome relationship for heart valve surgery. None have examined process of care factors that may be mediators of this association.
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