Unwarranted Variation in the Quality of Care for Patients With Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta

Unwarranted Variation in the Quality of Care for Patients With Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta

Background Thoracic aortic disease has a high mortality. We sought to establish the contribution of unwarranted variation in care to regional differences in outcomes observed in patients with thoracic aortic disease in England. Methods and Results Data from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and...

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Main Authors: Alex Bottle, Giovanni Mariscalco, Matthew A. Shaw, Umberto Benedetto, Athanasios Saratzis, Silvia Mariani, Mohamad Bashir, Paul Aylin, David Jenkins, Aung Y. Oo, Gavin J. Murphy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-03-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
aortic disease
aortic dissection
cardiac surgery
quality of care
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.004913

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