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Administrative Model for Profiling Hospital Performance on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Based on the Chinese Hospital Quality Monitoring System

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundWe aimed to develop an administrative model to profile the performance on the outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting across hospitals in China.Methods and ResultsThis retrospective study was based on the Chinese Hospital Quality Monitoring System (HQMS) from 2016 to 2020.

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Predictors of atrial fibrillation post coronary artery bypass graft surgery: new scoring system

Open Heart

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) following coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is common and results in significant increases in hospital stay and financial encumbrance. Objective Determine and use the predictors of postoperative AF (POAF) following CABG to develop a new predictive screening tool.

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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Launches New Valve Surgery Risk Calculators

DAIC

Analysis of 13,587 patients undergoing isolated tricuspid valve surgery from 2017 to 2023 revealed a 5.5% The STS rolled out all three interactive, mobile-friendly risk calculators in April 2024, adding to its existing portfolio of risk calculators for adult cardiac surgery. overall predicted risk of mortality for isolated repair and a 5.7%

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Multi-Valve Surgery Risk Calculator

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

STS leveraged contemporary national data from the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database between July 2017 and December 2023 to analyze outcomes of 32,938 patients that underwent multi-valve surgery involving replacement of the aortic valve, plus replacement or repair of the mitral valve, with and without concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting.

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In-hospital outcomes predictors and trends of redo sternotomy aortic root replacements: insights from a UK registry analysis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

There was a steady increase in the volume of redo sternotomy root replacements beyond 2006, from an annual volume of 22 procedures in 2006 to 106 procedures in 2017. 3.33, P  = 0.001), salvage coronary artery bypass grafting (OR: 2.20, CI: 1.37–3.54, Age >59 (OR: 2.99, CI: 1.92–4.65,

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Occurrence and predictors of pericardial effusion requiring invasive treatment following heart valve surgery

Open Heart

Methods A retrospective, observational cohort study including adult patients undergoing heart valve surgery at Odense University Hospital from August 2013 to November 2017. per year) and concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting versus isolated valve surgery (HR 0.58, 95% CI 0.35

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Referral Networks, Racial Inequity, and Hospital Quality for Open Heart Surgery

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

BACKGROUND:Differences in the quality of hospitals where Black and White patients receive coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery have been documented.