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Hospital Surgical Volumes and Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Using International Comparisons to
Nils Gutacker1, Karen Bloor2, Richard Cookson1
1Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, UK.
Objective:
To estimate a safe minimum hospital volume for hospitals performing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
Data Source:
Hospital data on all publicly funded CABG in five European countries, 2007-2009 (106,149 patients).
Design:
Hierarchical logistic regression models to estimate the relationship between hospital volume and mortality, allowing for case mix. Segmented regression analysis to estimate a threshold.
Findings:
The 30-day in-hospital mortality rate was 3.0 percent overall, 5.2 percent (95 percent CI: 4.0-6.4) in low-volume hospitals, and 2.1 percent (95 percent CI: 1.8-2.3) in high-volume hospitals. There is a significant curvilinear relationship between volume and mortality, flatter above 415 cases per hospital per year.
Conclusions:
There is a clear relationship between hospital CABG volume and mortality in Europe, implying a "safe" threshold volume of 415 cases per year.
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