Cardiac surgery

Since the publication of the first edition of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care in 1996, information about population-based, age-, sex-, and race-adjusted rates of particular surgical procedures among U.S. hospital referral regions (HRRs) has been available to the public. Hospital referral regions...

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Main Authors: Wennberg, John E., Cooper, Megan McAndrew (Author)
Corporate Author: Dartmouth Medical School Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Lebanon, N.H.] Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences 2005, [2005]
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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520 |a Since the publication of the first edition of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care in 1996, information about population-based, age-, sex-, and race-adjusted rates of particular surgical procedures among U.S. hospital referral regions (HRRs) has been available to the public. Hospital referral regions represent regional health care markets for tertiary medical care. Each HRR contains at least one hospital that performs major cardiovascular procedures and neurosurgery. More information on how hospital referral regions were defined is available in the Methods section of this document, and in the Appendix on the Geography of Health Care, located on our web site