Key result
Quality improvement efforts for CABG surgery lack sufficient documentation of systematic implementation to properly interpret the reported regional mortality trends.
Why the study?
Have quality improvement efforts decreased mortality rates following cardiac surgery?
Population
Patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Massachusetts, New York, and northern New England
Design
Editorial
Authors
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This letter highlights the importance of verifying that systematic quality improvement interventions actually occurred before drawing conclusions about their effectiveness on CABG mortality trends.
Have quality improvement efforts decreased mortality rates following cardiac surgery?
This letter highlights the importance of verifying that systematic quality improvement interventions actually occurred before drawing conclusions about their effectiveness on CABG mortality trends.
Edwin D. Huff (1997) conducted a letter in Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Quality improvement efforts was evaluated on CABG surgery mortality rate trends. Quality improvement efforts for CABG surgery lack sufficient documentation of systematic implementation to properly interpret the reported regional mortality trends.
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