Hospital Case Volume, Health Care Providers, and Mortality in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: a Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Surgical quality is evaluated by measuring the annual hospital case volume; a higher case volume is associated with better survival after various surgeries. We aimed to investigate if the annual hospital case volume and the health care providers were associated with a 90-day mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

Methods

For this population-based cohort study, we used data from a National Health Insurance Service database in South Korea. We included all adult patients diagnosed with ischemic heart disease who underwent isolated CABG between January 2012 and December 2017. Data on the annual surgical volume for CABG in each hospital where the patients received CABG and the total number of health care providers (including physicians [

SUBMITTER: Oh TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8176067 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature