Background The effect of teaching hospital status on cardiovascular surgery has been of
common interest in recent decades, yet its magnitude on heart valve replacement is still a …

Background: To comprehensively investigate early and late outcomes for all valve
replacement surgery patients in a non-referral regional hospital database and to compare …

Background With wide expansion of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and
dissemination of multidisciplinary-based approaches to care, societies are discussing the …

Importance Questions have recently arisen as to whether 30-day mortality is a reasonable
metric for understanding institutional practice differences after transcatheter aortic valve …

Background Valvular heart disease (VHD) has a significant prevalence and mortality rate
with surgical intervention continuing to be a cornerstone of therapy. We aim to report the …

Background Readmission rates are a widely accepted quality indicator. Our objective was to
develop models for calculating case‐mixed adjusted readmission rates after transcatheter …

Objective To characterize the effect of insurance status and other socioeconomic markers on
readmission rates after cardiac valve surgery. Design Retrospective cohort study using data …

Objectives This study sought to examine the association of hospital procedural volume with
the incidence and outcomes of surgical bailout (SB) in patients who undergo transcatheter …

Importance With the approval of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for patients
with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at intermediate surgical risk, TAVR volume is …

OBJECTIVES Long-term quality of life following open surgical valve replacement is an
increasingly important outcome to patients and their caregivers. This study examines non …