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Risk-Adjusted Prolonged Length of Stay as an Alternative Outcome Measure for Pediatric Congenital Cardiac Surgery

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975%2813%2902570-8/abstract

Author(s)

Ming Liu, Charlotte M. Druschel, Edward L. Hannan

The authors studied outcomes after congenital operations in 12 programs in New York state (4,776 operations) to assess whether prolonged length of stay (PLOS) can be used as a quality measure. PLOS incidence ranged from 7.5% to 36.5.5. PLOS was strongly correlated with mortality rates. The authors conclude that PLOS is a reasonable quality metric, especially in low volume centers.