The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 2 , Pages 267-273 , August 2010

Variability in data: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Adult Cardiac Surgery Database

  • Morgan L. Brown, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    • ,
  • Judy R. Lenoch

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn
    • ,
  • Hartzell V. Schaff, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st St SW, Rochester MN 55905.

Received 15 July 2009 ,Revised 3 February 2010 ,Accepted 26 February 2010.

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 Supported by grant No. 1 TL1 RR024152-01 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR or NIH. Information on NCRR is available at http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/. Information on Reengineering the Clinical Research Enterprise can be obtained from http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/clinicalresearch/overviewtranslational.asp.

 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(10)00388-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.02.052

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 2 , Pages 267-273 , August 2010

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