Role of Hospital Volumes in Identifying Low-Performing and High-Performing Aortic and Mitral Valve Surgical Centers in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Identifying high-performing surgical valve centers with the best surgical outcomes is challenging. Hospital surgical volume is a frequently used surrogate for outcomes. However, its ability to distinguish low-performing and high-performing hospitals remains unknown.

Objective

To examine the association of hospital procedure volume with hospital performance for aortic and mitral valve (MV) surgical procedures.

Design, setting, and participants

Within an all-payer nationally representative data set of inpatient hospitalizations, this study identified 682 unique hospitals performing surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and MV replacement and repair with or without coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) between 2007 and 2011. Procedural outcomes were furthe

SUBMITTER: Khera R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815001 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature