title: Collaboration helps N.E. hospitals improve cardiac surgery.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hume
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D009511:New England; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*