Development of a Congenital Heart Surgery Composite Quality Metric: Part 2 - Analytic Methods.

CONCLUSIONS: This congenital heart surgery composite measure incorporates aspects of both morbidity and mortality, has clinical face-validity, and greater ability to discriminate hospital performance compared to mortality alone. Ongoing efforts will support the use of the composite measure in benchmarking and quality improvement activities.
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Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - September 15, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: O'Brien SM, Jacobs JP, Shahian DM, Jacobs ML, Gaynor JW, Romano JC, Gaies MG, Hill KD, Mayer JE, Pasquali SK Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research