Speed and quality in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery: is there a connection?

In this paper we study the connection between coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operation time and quality. Our quality metric was the improvement in health related quality of life (HRQoL) survey score in a sample of 432 patients admitted to Kuopio University Hospital. Patients were interviewed wi...

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Published in:Health care management science 2009-06, Vol.12 (2), p.147-154
Main Authors: Lehtonen, Juha-Matti, Hippeläinen, Mikko, Kattainen, Eija, Kouri, Juhani, Kujala, Jaakko
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Angioplasty
Business and Management
Cardiovascular disease
Coronary Artery Bypass - methods
Coronary Artery Disease - surgery
Coronary vessels
Econometrics
Efficiency
Female
Health Administration
Health care
Health care industry
Health Informatics
Health service
Health-related quality of life
Heart surgery
Hospitals
Humans
Male
Management
Management science
Middle Aged
Operation time
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Patients
Quality
Quality of care
Quality of Health Care
Quality of Life
Questionnaires
Studies
Surgeons
Surgery
Time Factors
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Summary:In this paper we study the connection between coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operation time and quality. Our quality metric was the improvement in health related quality of life (HRQoL) survey score in a sample of 432 patients admitted to Kuopio University Hospital. Patients were interviewed with a structured questionnaire a day before the procedure and the follow-up questionnaires were mailed 6 and 12 months after the surgery. However, the HRQoL metric used did not have high retest reliability. Subsequently, we did not find any connection between CAGB operation times and HRQoL. Likewise, we did not find the speed of the surgeon to have any connection to HRQoL improvement.
ISSN:1386-9620
1572-9389
DOI:10.1007/s10729-008-9075-6