A comprehensive American Association for Thoracic Surgery quality program for the 21st century

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 Oct;158(4):1120-1126. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.07.017.

Authors

Eugene H Blackstone¹, Julie Swain², Ken McCardle³, David H Adams²; Governance Committee, American Association for Thoracic Surgery Quality Assessment Program

Collaborators

Governance Committee, American Association for Thoracic Surgery Quality Assessment Program:
David Adams, Eugene Blackstone, Pedro Del Nido, David Jones, Ken McCardle, Marc Moon, Jeffrey Rich, Hartzell Schaff, Craig Smith, Vaughn Starnes, Lars Svensson, Julie Swain

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: blackse@ccf.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY.
³ Department of Clinical Operations, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY.

PMID: 31537256
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.07.017

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Clinical Competence
Data Accuracy
Data Mining / trends*
Forecasting
Humans
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / trends*
Patient Safety
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / trends
Quality Improvement / trends*
Quality Indicators, Health Care / trends*
Risk Assessment
Societies, Medical / trends*
Thoracic Surgery / trends*
Thoracic Surgical Procedures / adverse effects
Thoracic Surgical Procedures / trends*
Treatment Outcome
United States