title: Virginia hospitals join to create data repository for cardiac surgery.
abstract: Initiative shares best practices among 17 hospitals and 10 surgery groups.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020407:Internet; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014768:Virginia