Relationship between preventability of death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and all-cause risk-adjusted mortality rates.

Veena Guru; Jack Tu V; Edward Etchells; Geoffrey Anderson; David Naylor; Richard J. Novick; Christopher M. Feindel; Fraser D. Rubens; Kevin Teoh; Avdesh Mathur; Andrew Hamilton; Daniel Bonneau; Charles Cutrara; Peter C. Austin; Stephen E. Fremes

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Relationship between preventability of death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and all-cause risk-adjusted mortality rates.

July 9, 2008

Guru V, Tu J, Etchells E, et al. Circulation. 2008;117(23):2969-76.

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Although nearly one-third of deaths after bypass surgery were judged to be preventable based on retrospective review, preventable deaths were not correlated with individual hospital risk-adjusted mortality rates.

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