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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 45, 348-349, Copyright © 1988 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
NT Kouchoukos, PA Ebert, FL Grover and GG Lindesmith
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons remains greatly concerned about the use of
raw mortality data as the sole measure to determine quality of care
following coronary artery bypass surgery. Use of such data without
consideration of risk factors that are predictors of hospital mortality and
of other indices of quality of care is inappropriate and misleading and may
adversely affect the care of the high-risk cardiac surgical patient. The
Society is committed to the principle of providing the public with accurate
information regarding the conduct of coronary artery surgery. However, it
believes that the data provided by HCFA do not provide this information and
should not be used as the sole index of quality of care following coronary
artery bypass surgery.
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