Key result
Assessing post-CABG morbidity enhances quality of care evaluation due to risk factors distinct from mortality.
Highlights the growing importance of assessing severe morbidity and prolonged hospital stay as key quality metrics after coronary artery surgery.
Morbidity metrics may enhance CABG quality assessment; leaves open dedicated risk-prediction models.
When operations become safer, attention inevitably shifts from mortality to morbidity. Unfortunately, morbidity is more difficult to measure than death, but it is arguably of greater interest to the patient and to those from public or private institutions that have the responsibility for balancing a health care budget. Studies that focus on morbidity are currently few, and specific risk models are being developed. It is already evident that risk factors associated with hospital death are qualitatively different from risk factors associated with prolonged hospital stay. The study of morbidity after coronary artery surgery is important to surgeons and physicians, to assess quality of care and the impact of new treatments and procedures.
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John Pepper (2000) conducted a review in Severe morbidity after coronary artery surgery. Coronary artery surgery was evaluated. The study of morbidity after coronary artery surgery is increasingly important to assess quality of care, as risk factors for morbidity differ qualitatively from those for mortality.
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