American Association for Thoracic Surgery Quality Gateway (AQG): Interim report

The essence of running a high-quality cardiothoracic program, a measure of excellence, is an immediately available, current, reliable, and matrix of data outcomes that all participants trust. Today, most such interested participants (quality officers, department chairs, or individual surgeons) rely on data such as mortality or wound infection that is updated weekly or monthly and trended on a graph over time. However, the data may not be that current and is not matched to an external data set or risk adjusted.
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research