The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 130, Issue 5 , Pages 1257.e1-1257.e11 , November 2005

The identification and development of Canadian coronary artery bypass graft surgery quality indicators

  • Veena Guru, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute For Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Veena Guru, MD, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Avenue, G106, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada
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  • Geoffrey M. Anderson

      Affiliations

    • Institute For Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  • Stephen E. Fremes, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute For Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  • Gerald T. O’Connor, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Professor, Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
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  • Frederick L. Grover, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver, Colo
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  • Jack V. Tu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute For Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  • Canadian CABG Surgery Quality Indicator Consensus Panel

Received 25 March 2005 ,Revised 2 May 2005 ,Accepted 22 July 2005.

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 Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (fellowship salary support), TACTICS training grant, and the Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre (Tanna Schulich scholarship). This project was supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario HSF 5484 (www.qualitycabg.org).

PII: S0022-5223(05)01279-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.07.041

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 130, Issue 5 , Pages 1257.e1-1257.e11 , November 2005

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