Interhospital failure to rescue after coronary artery bypass grafting.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We evaluated whether interhospital variation in mortality rates for coronary artery bypass grafting was driven by complications and failure to rescue.

Methods

An observational study was conducted among 83,747 patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass grafting between July 2011 and June 2017 across 90 hospitals. Failure to rescue was defined as operative mortality among patients developing complications. Complications included the Society of Thoracic Surgeons 5 major complications (stroke, surgical reexploration, deep sternal wound infection, renal failure, prolonged intubation) and a broader set of 19 overall complications. After creating terciles of hospital performance (based on observed:expected mortality), each tercile was compared on the basis of cru

SUBMITTER: Likosky DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8679510 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature