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Risk and Outcome Assessments

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Over the last three decades, the assessment of risk and comparison of outcomes have evolved from the reporting of raw mortality and morbidity rates to the comparison of risk-adjusted results using a variety of complex statistical methods. Concurrently, various multi-institutional registries have emerged as a result of voluntary initiatives or mandatory requirements from state and nationwide regulations. Consequently, the reporting of outcomes, previously limited to single institutional data, has more currently focused on larger multi-institutional registries suitable to develop risk models with sufficient predictive power. With the rapid evolution of organized medicine and the heightened attention to quality improvement, it is essential for the practitioner in the community to understand the basic concepts in the assessment of risks and comparison of outcomes.

The following chapter intends to present the foundation of risk-adjustment methodologies and to depict an outline of the most common databases currently used for research and quality improvement purposes.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, TN, 38103, USA

    Manuel Caceres MD

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  1. Dept. Anesthesiol. & Anesthesiol. Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Dabbagh

  2. Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Fardad Esmailian

  3. Divisions of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Sary F. Aranki

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Caceres, M. (2014). Risk and Outcome Assessments. In: Dabbagh, A., Esmailian, F., Aranki, S. (eds) Postoperative Critical Care for Cardiac Surgical Patients. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40418-4_15

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