Measuring and Reporting Quality for Adult Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Centers: Is It Possible and Is It Time?

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC.
² Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Penn Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Departments of Anesthesiology and Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, California.

Michael A Mazzeffi et al. Anesth Analg. 2022.

. 2022 Oct 1;135(4):719-724.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006080. Epub 2022 Sep 15.

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC.
² Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Penn Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Departments of Anesthesiology and Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, California.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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