Association Between Physician Teamwork and Health System Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) must often see multiple providers dispersed across many care locations. To test whether teamwork (assessed with the bipartite clustering coefficient) among these physicians is a determinant of surgical outcomes, we examined national Medicare data from patients undergoing CABG.

Methods and results

Among Medicare beneficiaries who underwent CABG between 2008 and 2011, we mapped relationships between all physicians who treated them during their surgical episodes, including both surgeons and nonsurgeons. After aggregating across CABG episodes in a year to construct the physician social networks serving each health system, we then assessed the level of physician teamwork in these networks with the bipartite clu

SUBMITTER: Hollingsworth JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5746343 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature