welcomes you to the new, improved website!This study examined the utility/accuracy of an administrative database compared to the STS Congenital Database for the outcome of mortality, which is used to rank quality. The administrative database had substantially lower volume and mortality numbers than the STS Database, resulting in ranking differences of 5 or more places for 24% of hospitals.
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Measuring Hospital Performance in Congenital Heart Surgery: Administrative Versus Clinical Registry Data
Submitted by: Mark Ferguson
Source: Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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Author(s): Sara K. Pasquali, Xia He, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Marshall L. Jacobs, Michael G. Gaies, Samir S. Shah, Matthew Hall, J. William Gaynor, Eric D. Peterson, John E. Mayer, Jennifer C. Hirsch-Romano
