Defining operative mortality: Impact on outcome reporting Steven Maximus, MD, Jeffrey C. Milliken, MD, Beate Danielsen, PhD, Junaid Khan, MD, Richard Shemin, MD, Joseph S. Carey, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 151, Issue 4, Pages 1101-1110 (April 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.10.062 Copyright © 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Method of calculating mortality. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 151, 1101-1110DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.10.062) Copyright © 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 No patients excluded (values based on Table 1). CABG, Coronary artery bypass grafting; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; ACS, acute coronary syndrome. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 151, 1101-1110DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.10.062) Copyright © 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Untrackable patients excluded (values based on Table 2). CABG, Coronary artery bypass grafting; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; ACS, acute coronary syndrome. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 151, 1101-1110DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.10.062) Copyright © 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Operative mortality using 5 methods. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 151, 1101-1110DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.10.062) Copyright © 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions