An Individual Surgeon Composite Metric: Are We Ready?

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Editorial

Richard L Prager. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Oct.

. 2015 Oct;100(4):1141.

doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.08.004. Epub 2015 Aug 29.

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Electronic address: rprager@med.umich.edu.

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Comment on

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Composite Measure of Individual Surgeon Performance for Adult Cardiac Surgery: A Report of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Measurement Task Force.
Shahian DM, He X, Jacobs JP, Kurlansky PA, Badhwar V, Cleveland JC Jr, Fazzalari FL, Filardo G, Normand SL, Furnary AP, Magee MJ, Rankin JS, Welke KF, Han J, O'Brien SM. Shahian DM, et al. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Oct;100(4):1315-24; discussion 1324-5. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.06.122. Epub 2015 Aug 29. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015. PMID: 26330012