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August 24, 2007The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Cardiac Surgery in Germany during 2006: A Report on Behalf of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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Population

Patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures in 81 German cardiac surgical units in 2006.

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

in-hospital

Authors

JGJan GummertCardiac SurgeryAFA. FunkatLeipzig Heart InstituteABAndreas BeckmannKlinik Niederrhein

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Implication

Offers real-world mortality benchmarks for CABG and valve surgery; leaves open the need for risk-adjusted trend analyses.

Structured PICO

P
Population
Patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures (excluding ICD and pacemakers) in 81 German cardiac surgical units in 2006 (n=97,123 procedures).
I
Intervention
Cardiac surgical procedures (including isolated CABG and isolated valve procedures)
O
Outcome
Hospital mortalityhard clinical

The 2006 German cardiac surgery registry demonstrates a high volume of procedures with acceptable hospital mortality rates, including 3.1% for isolated CABG and 4.9% for isolated valve procedures.

Cite This Study

Gummert et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fea8a3c28c7d12f5f0cc19https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2007-965485
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