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February 1, 2008The Medical Journal of Australia

Trends in coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Victoria, 2001–2006: findings from the Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons database project

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Population

9,372 patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery between 1 July 2001 and 30 June 2006…

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

30-day

Authors

DDDiem DinhInterventional CardiologyGLGeraldine LeeKookmin UniversityBBBaki BillahPIH Health

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Implication

Stable short-term CABG mortality despite rising patient risk; extends real-world evidence but leaves open causal factors and generalizability.

Structured PICO

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Population
9,372 patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery between 1 July 2001 and 30 June 2006 in six Victorian public hospitals
I
Intervention
Isolated coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery
O
Outcome
Trends in patient baseline characteristics and risk factors, postoperative morbidity and 30-day mortality ratehard clinical

Short-term outcomes after isolated CABG surgery in Victoria remained stable and favorable over a 5-year period despite an increasingly older and higher-risk patient population.

Cite This Study

Dinh et al. (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8929666abbd4965f28b535https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01587.x
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