Worse long-term survival after off-pump than on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting Hisato Takagi, MD, PhD, Takuya Umemoto, MD, PhD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 148, Issue 5, Pages 1820-1829.e1 (November 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.05.034 Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Forest plot of hazard ratios for long-term all-cause mortality among patients assigned to off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. SE, Standard error; IV, inverse variance; CI, confidence interval; BHACAS, Beating Heart Against Cardioplegic Arrest Studies; MASS, Medicine, Angioplasty, or Surgery Study; SMART, Surgical Management of Arterial Revascularization Therapies; CICSP, Continuous Improvement in Cardiac Surgery Program; NY CSRS, New York State's Cardiac Surgery Reporting System; SWEDEHEART, Swedish Web-system for Enhancement and Development of Evidence-based care in Heart Disease Evaluated According to Recommended Therapies. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 148, 1820-1829.e1DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.05.034) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 One-study-removed meta-analysis of hazard ratios for all-cause long-term mortality among patients assigned to off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. CI, Confidence interval; BHACAS, Beating Heart Against Cardioplegic Arrest Studies; MASS, Medicine, Angioplasty, or Surgery Study; SMART, Surgical Management of Arterial Revascularization Therapies; CICSP, Continuous Improvement in Cardiac Surgery Program; NY CSRS, New York State's Cardiac Surgery Reporting System; SWEDEHEART, Swedish Web-system for Enhancement and Development of Evidence-based care in Heart Disease Evaluated According to Recommended Therapies. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 148, 1820-1829.e1DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.05.034) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Funnel plot of the logarithm of effect size (hazard ratio) versus the precision (reciprocal of the standard error [Std Err]) for each study. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 148, 1820-1829.e1DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.05.034) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions