Surgeon specific mortality in adult cardiac surgery: comparison between crude and risk stratified data

AUTOR(ES)

Bridgewater, Ben

FONTE

BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

RESUMO

Objective As a result of recent failures in clinical governance the government has made a commitment to bring individual surgeons' mortality data into the public domain. We have analysed a database to compare crude mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery with outcomes that were stratified by risk.

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