BACKGROUND: One of every 150 hospitalized patients experiences a lethal adverse event;
nearly half of these events involves surgical patients. Although variations in surgeon …

Objective To determine the impact of anesthesiologists, surgeons, and their monthly
caseload volume on mortality after cardiac surgery. Design Ten-year audit of prospectively …

It is widely accepted that the performance of the operating surgeon affects outcomes, and
this has led to the publication of surgical results in the public domain. However, the effect of …

BACKGROUND: In creating the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, Congress has
mandated pay-for-performance (P4P) for all physicians, including anesthesiologists. There …

Purpose Perioperative mortality ranges from 0.4% to as high as nearly 12%. Currently, there
are no large-scale studies looking specifically at the healthy surgical population alone. The …

Background: Although there are several studies of the human and system factors that
influence the outcomes of cardiac surgery, it remains difficult to draw conclusions because …

Objectives To examine anesthesia-centered outcomes in a large cohort of patients
undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or valvular heart surgery. Design A …

Background Optimal risk adjustment is a requisite precondition for monitoring quality of care
and interpreting public reports of hospital outcomes. Current risk-adjustment measures have …

Abstract Editor's Perspective What We Already Know about This Topic The Revised Cardiac
Risk Index, and the risk calculators based on the National Surgical Quality Improvement …

BACKGROUND: Attributing causes of postoperative mortality is challenging, as death may
be multifactorial. A better understanding of complications that occur in patients who die is …